Gillovny timeline 2018 (part ½)
I usually post the timeline every six months, so I’m a little late this year, but here it is, right before the first Gillovny Con of the year!
As usual, feel free to tell me if I forgot something!
Here’s the full timeline since 2016
#BTS
January 3rd:
– For The X-Files season 11 premiere on Fox, Gillian posted this picture of David, Chris and herself. “Gangs all here! Tonight at 8/7c.”
– And this picture of David and Mitch. “Ooh don’t they look spiffy?”
Walk of Fame
January 8th:
– David couldn’t be at Gillian’s ceremony but he left her a sweet message. “Gillian, you said you would be next to me when you died, too. Well, you were right. But this isn’t death, it’s a beginning. So much more to come for you. In the meantime, I hope your fans sprinkle chocolate on your star the occasional Hollywood midnight and some kind soul builds a Gilly ramp from your star to mine. We will always be joined as partners, friends, and neighbors. Congratulations Gillian. Love, David” (watch the full ceremony)
– A guy made both Gillian and David sign a picture of them at their respective ceremonies. Here’s what happened.
– David liked a tweet with an “heart-eyes emoji” and the picture of Gillian’s star ceremony. (source)
#TCA, #TBT, #BTS and The ChemistryTM
January 10th: Gillian keeps going on with the red speedo. “Because I wasn’t in this scene and because this isn’t disappointing, I’m putting this out there.”
January 12th:
– David makes up tells a new story about how they met for the first time: “Celebrating 25 years, makes me look back when I first met Gillian. It was during the casting, I was looking for some matches and she took them out and approached me, just like that, without saying a word.” (read the interview)
– David and Gillian did a panel for the TCA and have been asked about their chemistry. Gillian said: “And I feel like just this year, I’ve developed a whole new appreciation for the uniqueness of what people always ask me about and referred to, “What about your chemistry,” and, you know, “You got chemistry,” you know? But it was it’s special. And it’s a chemistry that often there are elements of it that show up when we’re, you know, side by side doing interviews, but most of it shows up” (read the full panel report)
January 14th: Gillian changed her Ebay icon to this picture.
January 17th: Gillian tweeted this video of a bear on the set, a call back to this story.
January 24th:
– Gillian tweeted this little video of David. “2,945,002…2,945,003..”
– And this picture. “Scully drove. Her feet reached the pedals.”
January 31st: Gillian posted this picture. “Just when you think life’s a peach….” and later, this set of pictures of she and David. “A series.”
February 2nd: On a podcast, David is asked about his relationship with Gillian: “there’s a personal history that’s strong, there’s a personal history kind of encompasses this life changing and career making enterprise that we did together. We have that bond of like having started when we were just kind of individual people and then becoming this huge thing and only the other one knows what that’s like. And then we have all this acting that we’ve done together so I don’t think we even try to play any kind of anything.“ (listen to the full podcast)
February 7th: Gillian posted this picture. “Killing time between takes.”
February 9th: Gillian retweeted David’s release of his new album.
February 19th: During an interview in Australia, David is asked about his friendship with Gillian:
Interviewer: “But you’re friends. You’re mates. You’re back doing it?”
DD: I can see that you are concerned.
Interviewer: I am concerned. This is a big deal to me. I need to know.
DD: We are friends. We are friends. (watch the interview).
February 20th: Gillian posted this manip of Virtue & Moir with their faces. “Did we win?”
February 28th:
– Gillian posted this little video of David and Darin Morgan and the blobfish. “Which of these three is not like the others?”
– And this picture of David. “Safety first.”
March 7th: Gillian posted this picture of she and David. “Very serious episodes call for a throwback to a smile”
March 14th: Gillian posted this little video of David. “Getting ready for a night out!”
March 21st: Gillian posted this #tbt. “Lara Croft for dummies.”
More #BTS, Cons’, mutual admiration and dick songs
April 8th:
– Gillian was in Belgium for the Facts Convention. During the panel, she said that her favorite part of the revival was to work with David again. (source)
– She also said about David: “David and I become really good friends over the years. We become closer over the years. At the end of the day, we realized that we were probably the only two people who were ever going to have the experience that we had together. So, there was something special in all of that to celebrate and to respect and to honor. It helped us to slow down and lean in to the friendship.“ (watch the full panel)
April 28th: David gave a “confirm or deny” interview to The New-York Times:
Interviewer: You’ve never read Gillian Anderson’s sci-fi novels?
DD: Deny.
Interviewer: You’ve never socialized with Gillian.
DD: We’ve gone out to dinner. You know, between five and 10 times.
(Read the full interview)
May 1st: Gillian tweeted for David’s book Miss Subways’ release. “Yup he’s done it again!“
May 17th: David is on a radio show when this singer has a particular song for him. “Stick it in Gillian.”
May 21st:
– Gillian posted this picture. “Warm and dry and resigned.”
– And this video of David. “Sploded head prep”.
– And this manip. “Wait…I thought this was what’s next.”
June 10th: Gillian posted a picture in her instagram story with a very famillar message… “Be here now.” (source)
June 17th: David and Mitch are at the Alien Con.
– Here’s David’s theory about what Gillian might have whispered during the church scene.
– And David telling the neck brace prank again.
(Watch the full panel)
June 29th: Gillian’s makeup artist for a photoshoot called David “her partner”. Kinda… (source)
The X-Files season 11 BTS are out!
July 19th:
– A few clips from The X-Files season 11 DVD start to leak, starting with the now famous “goodbye Mister Duchovny”, (full video)
– Then the even more famous “I love you.” “You too.”
– And the gags real, of course.
(here’s a masterpost with links to all the BTS, here are some screenshots of the documentaries, a little video of the church scene BTS)
#WTFTM
– July 30th: David is in London for a comic con. He and Gillian are spotted having dinner together with their “partners”. (source)
Birthdays wishes
August 7th:
– Gillian wishes David a happy birthday. “Happy Birthday Mr. Duchovny!”
– David responded. “The gift that keeps giving…”
August 9th:
– David wishes her back. “Right back at ya Ms. Anderson…Happy Birthday!“
– And Gillian responded something spicy… “Thank you! You know how much I love sweet and spicy…chocolate.”
To be continued…