Character
Remains a Mystery
Details surrounding the
character she'll play on the Fox series are being kept under wraps, but
she will be in the season premiere on Nov. 4.
"We're thrilled to
have an opportunity to work with Lucy, whose work we've admired for a long
time," X-Files executive producer Frank Spotnitz tells Reuters.
"We think we've found an interesting and unexpected way to have her
join the family."
The news about the
addition of Lawless, who has a devout lesbian following thanks to her role
as Xena, comes just as folks on the Web are speculating about the sexual
orientation of X-Files Agent Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish), who attended
the birth of Agent Scully's baby last season, during which she told Scully
(Gillian Anderson) that she looked "amazingly beautiful."
Another of the show's
executive producers, John Shiban, told TV Guide that he and fellow
producers Chris Carter and Spotnitz "talked about [taking Lawless'
character in that direction but we [ultimately decided] that it's the kind
of baggage that we didn't want to deal with with this kind of character
right now. We had other ideas that we were more excited about."
Shiban isn't ruling out
the possibility, however. "On The X-Files, anything can happen,"
he told TV Guide. "So, I don't want to discount anything. Life is
complicated."
