Carter: Hi. Ready for any and all questions...

Question: Chris, Lucy Lawless is well known for her role on Xena, how do you think fans will react to her playing an Agent on The X-Files?

Carter: Well, I hope they like her. We had a chance to cast someone who I had met at the... I think 1997 or 98 Emmy Awards. She came up to me and introduced herself, and said she was a fan of the show. Late last year, when it was announced that Xena wouldn't be coming back, she and her husband sent me a nice note about what fans they were of the show. I took that as an opportunity to take someone who was a fine actress, who would clearly be looking for a role different from the one she had played for the last number of years, and figure out a way to use her in the show. And it just so happened that how we were plotting out Season Nine that she fit perfectly into The X-Files mythology. It's interesting that Lucy studied acting in Vancouver under Bill Davis, who played the Cigarette Smoking Man for so many years.

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