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Talking about Hannibal and The Fall, both are kind of dark shows. How do you get out of those moods and that mindset that you have to get to into those characters?

I think doing The X-Files for so long and having a young child teaches one about compartmentalizing. I think I learned pretty quickly. Just even to go from the set into my trailer where I had a child that I suddenly needed to be mommy to, that in itself taught me pretty quickly how to compartmentalize. I don't find it that hard with anything, not just the dark stuff. I got asked that question a lot this year because I did [A Streetcar Named Desire], which runs about three and a half hours and obviously Blanche has a nervous breakdown by the end of it and then you go home and back to your kids. My experience is you just do, that's work and that's home and they have their place. I've never found—knock wood, [Laughs.] now I'm going to have the complete opposite experience where I'm going to be haunted every night by what I do from now on—but I don't find it such a big deal.

I also read in a Reddit AMA that you have pitched yourself for Ghostbusters and I think that would be amazing.

[Laughs.] It would be. That was the first time I heard about it, was when we were doing that and that got a lot of airplay, so to speak. I think it almost got too much airplay that it may have counter activated any remote possibility of me being involved. But yes, it would just be fun. I don't get asked to do a lot of comedies and I enjoy doing comedies, I can do comedy. So anytime something that would potentially be a good, light comedy is appealing in and of itself, but of course Ghostbusters and the genre and all that.

The Fall returns to Netflix on Friday, Jan. 16 with six episodes.