As buzz surrounding a second "X-Files" movie grows louder, Gillian Anderson is reminiscing about her seemingly traumatic tenure as sensible suit-wearing Special Agent Dana Scully on the long-running Fox series.

"I spent nine years on a film set. Nine [bleeping] years!" she kvetches to the London Telegraph's Stella magazine. "To begin with it was all right, but gradually it all became incredibly gossipy and incestuous. It's like living in this disgusting microcosm when everything becomes condensed like that."

And she's quick to disabuse any notion that her extended stint chasing black-eyed aliens opposite David Duchovny' laconic Fox Mulder had anything to do with -- perish the thought -- enjoying it.

"I couldn't get out of it; I didn't have a choice," she rants. "I had to sign a contract for five and a half years before I even went to my last audition -- when I didn't even know if I'd got the part. Back then I was all innocent and I thought, 'Wow, that sounds wonderful.' But then, when I started, I realized I'd be in a Canadian wood working 16 hours a day for nine months a year. And the reason I stayed so long was because the only way I could get more money was to commit myself to doing it for another couple of years."

Anderson, who welcomed son Oscar in November with British businessman Mark Griffiths (she split with husband Julian Ozanne in April 2006), has settled in London, a move she acknowledges "has probably not had a hugely positive impact on my career."

As for why she decided to flee North America, she blames it on finding herself in a far darker place than the woods of Canada after she was paroled from "The X-Files."

"I knew that I'd want to act again, but I didn't want it to mirror that form in any way. Unfortunately, I ended up doing this terrible [bleeping] cheesy game show called 'Hollywood Squares,'" she recalls. "It just made me want to throw up. You know, yurghh!"

When asked whether she'd ever consider a return to the medium that made her famous, she has a strong and very un-Scully-like reaction.

"Oh, shut the [bleep] up!" she erupts. "Are you kidding me? My God, I don't even watch television. I don't like television. I never have liked it. The whole concept of sitting down in front of a TV feels like one of things that's destroying society as far as I'm concerned."

Still, Gillian's anti-boob tube stance apparently isn't going to stop her from reteaming with her erstwhile partner to get to the bottom of new and improved government conspiracies.

"Mulder and Scully will be up on the big screen one more time, and I'm looking forward to it," says Duchovny (via columnist Cindy Pearlman). "I really miss the people behind 'The X Files.' This film will be a reunion, and I think we'll make a great movie because Mulder and Scully are just great characters."

And what of those tales of his occasionally acrimonious working relationship with Anderson? He says that's all in the past.

"We love each other now," insists Duchovny. "Absence makes the heart grow fonder. We actually had lunch last week, and it was really nice to be back together."

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