Gillian Anderson says it took her 5 years after The X-Files ended to get what the fuss was about

> “Because when you’re doing something like that, all anybody says is, ‘Oh my god. The show. Oh my god. It’s the most amazing [thing]!’ And you don’t wanna hear that anymore. You don’t,” she said on a recent episode of the Smartless podcast, which is hosted by fellow actors Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes.

> “I suddenly got what they were talking about, like, five years after the show ended,” Anderson said. “I was kinda like, ‘Yeah. That was kinda cool. I was on this really cool show.'”