In a video uploaded to TikTok, Gillian Anderson is filmed telling a group of fans they are ‘distracting’ her by repeatedly sitting in the front row while she performs in London’s West End.
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The Sex Education and X-Files actor is starring in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Soho Place theatre, where she tells the fans: ‘You can’t come 20 times and sit in the front row, it’ll drive me mad.’ The fans, who are not shown in the video, can be heard responding to Anderson’s comments with ‘I’m sorry’ and ‘I know’
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