When the ninth season of THE X-FILES starts up next month, not only will the series be minus David Duchovny, but ex-XENA Lucy Lawless will be making the first of two scheduled guest appearances.
While talking to Ian Spelling's Inside Trek & Sci Fi syndicated column, Lawless was asked if she could give some details of her role. Nervously, she replied, "What can I tell you about the two episodes? I feel like Chris Carter will come after me and I'll end up with bloody cement boots on my feet, at the bottom of the ocean, if I tell you too much.
But she finally comes clean, saying, "My character, Shannon McMahon, reenters Doggett's life. They used to be in the military together - in my back story they fought in Beirut - and now she's causing a great deal of trouble. You don't know if she's good and you don't know if she's bad. She seems to be both things at once.
She adds, "McMahon also is bearing tidings, not entirely of gladness and joy, for Scully's baby...And I spent half my time naked."
On the latter point, she notes, "Why not, if it looks good on screen? Of course, you don't see anything except my well-endowed body double. Let's just say the character's a bit of a water baby, a water babe. She's a nymph."
As for further appearances on the series, Lawless says, "My being back, it remains to be seen. All I can say is that I had a stupendously good time working with those people, and it was immensely challenging... I spent three nights underwater, breathing from an aqualung, so it was very challenging stuff. But I'm open to coming back if they invite me to do so."
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