Gillian Anderson has been featured as a recurring guest-star on NBC's Hannibal as Dr. Lecter's damaged but steely therapist Bedelia Du Maurier. She makes her big return to U.S. series television this Sunday, though, in NBC's Crisis.
The show follows the kidnapping of the teen children of several of Washington D.C.'s elite when they are on a field trip. Anderson plays a Meg Finch in the series, a high-powered executive whose child was on the bus that was taken. Her estranged sister is the FBI agent assigned to the case.
We had the opportunity to sit down with the actress recently to talk about what inspired her return to U.S. series television, and Crisis in particular.
"I've played a lot of very strong women in my career," Anderson reflected. "I'm not sure if I've ever played somebody who's had the weight placed on control as high as Meg Finch. When this event takes place and her daughter is kidnapped it's very, very challenging for her not to be able to do anything about it. Then we see the relationship between herself and her sister - who's at the forefront of the FBI investigation - develop. They haven't spoken for 16 years, so it's balance of processing her own grief while allowing her sister to do her job. It's a question of how much she's able to allow her to do that when she doesn't trust her to begin with and she's so used to being in control that she's going to do everything in her power to side-step what the FBI is doing to get to the bottom of what's happened."
"Very quickly in the series you start to get a good sense of what created the rift between the sisters," Anderson said of that central relationship.
The actress instinctively understood the kind of woman her character is and the kind of people who inhabit this high-stakes environment. "I know a few people who are of that world and it's quite specific and intense," Anderson said. "It didn't feel like research, though. It was more about talking to a few people about how they operate in the world. These are very powerful people who are used to getting what they want."
One question that viewers may have about the series is if it has the potential for longevity. Theoretically, this would function as a limited event series with a definitive beginning, middle, and end and a focus on the solving of the central crisis. However, the show is designed to lead into multiple seasons should it be a success.
"My understanding is that this season will end with the kids coming back," Anderson explained. "Then what will happen at the end of the season and the beginning of the next season is a sense of relief and things going back to normal until something else takes place that throws everything on its ear again."
Anderson has a full schedule, and is consistently traveling between the U.S. and the U.K. to meet all of her commitments. It's been a balancing act, but one that the actress is embracing. "Crisis shoots in Chicago and I live in London," Anderson said. "In terms of the schedule for Crisis, it seems to be working out that I'm commuting back and forth. Then there will be a certain time period where I switch to doing The Fall (Anderson's series for the BBC) and somewhere in there, hopefully, I'll be able to whip out a couple of more Hannibal's. It's such a compact filming schedule that it feels possible."
Crisis premieres Sunday, March 18 at 10/9c on NBC.
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