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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

S18, Ep7 Gillian Anderson on sex, body image and rebellion

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Sony Music

Society & Culture

4.79.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Continuing this season's line-up of ICONIC AND INCREDIBLE WOMEN, I am veritably trembling with delight to bring you today's guest: the extraordinary Gillian Anderson. Her 30-plus year career has taken her from playing FBI Special Agent Scully in The X Files to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Crown. She’s been a dogged detective in The Fall and an unembarrassable sex therapist in the Netflix hit show Sex Education. On stage, she has been everything from Blanche duBois in A Streetcar Named Desire to Margo Channing in All About Eve. It’s almost easier to list the roles she hasn’t played than the ones she has. Owing to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA actors strike, we don't talk about any of her acting roles. Instead, this liberates us to have a fascinating chat about life, fame, womanhood and everything in between. We talk about her failures to look after herself, her addiction to work, how she coped with global celebrity in her 20s and how this affected the way that she saw herself. Plus: why she thinks wellness culture is making us ill and why her natural instinct when someone tells her what to do is to say 'F** off.' -- Gillian's healthy soft-drink range, G-Spot, is available to buy here. (Not an ad but it tastes EXCELLENT). -- I'm going on tour! To AUSTRALIA, mate! You can now purchase tickets to see me live at Sydney Opera House on 26th February 2024 or the Arts Centre Melbourne on 28th February 2024. -- How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted and produced by Elizabeth Day. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com -- Social Media: Elizabeth Day @elizabday How To Fail @howtofailpod Gillian Anderson @gilliana Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Now failing in the workplace, I'm a firm believer that it can be celebrated if it results in

0:39.4

you learning something that will help your small business succeed and thrive in the long

0:44.9

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0:50.8

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1:06.9

and gain practical tips to create an environment where everybody feels valuable and has the

1:12.3

support to thrive. That sounds so good for small media enterprises. Making small but positive

1:20.1

changes to tackle workplace related stress and muscle, bone and joint problems will not

1:25.1

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1:30.4

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1:41.7

the workplace and to watch previous academy events. Thank you so much to Booper, better

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for business.

1:55.1

Hello and welcome to How to Fail with Elizabeth Day, the podcast that celebrates the things

2:09.2

that haven't gone right. This is a podcast about learning from our mistakes and understanding

2:15.4

that why we fail ultimately makes us stronger because learning how to fail in life actually

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