Gillian Anderson once said she would have liked to film a highly sexual scene between Dana Scully and Fox Mulder in *The X-Files*, imagining it as “the greatest sex in the world”. However, she believed making their relationship explicitly romantic would undermine the carefully built chemistry and intimacy between the characters, so the idea remained unrealised.

The comments, reported in the mid-1990s and revisited in the article, concerned Anderson’s on-screen partnership with David Duchovny. She described an imagined episode involving extended foreplay and “raunchy” sex, but said the show’s producers opposed a romance and that she ultimately agreed; instead, the series relied on implication, emotional closeness and sexual tension.