
There is a double layer of fantasy in Gillian Anderson’s anthology, Want. Anderson is not a sex therapist, but she plays one on TV; it was her role as Jean Milburn on the Netflix series Sex Education that spurred the creation of this collection and — perhaps — encouraged the women who sent in their fantasies to confide in her. At that point the project was called “Dear Gillian”, these visions addressed to a specific reader/listener, “Gillian” herself a fantasy in each writer’s imagination.
吉莉安?安德森(Gillian Anderson)的文集《欲望》中有著雙重幻想。安德森并不是一位性治療師,但她在電視劇《性教育》中飾演了這樣的角色;正是她在該劇中扮演的吉恩?米爾本(Jean Milburn)激發(fā)了這本文集的創(chuàng)作,并或許鼓勵了那些將自己的幻想寄給她的女性們。在那個時候,這個項目被稱為“親愛的吉莉安”,這些幻想都是寫給一個特定的讀者/聽眾,“吉莉安”本身就是每位作者想象中的一個幻想。