
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》中有着双重幻想。安德森并不是一位性治疗师,但她在电视剧《性教育》中饰演了这样的角色;正是她在该剧中扮演的吉恩•米尔本(Jean Milburn)激发了这本文集的创作,并或许鼓励了那些将自己的幻想寄给她的女性们。在那个时候,这个项目被称为“亲爱的吉莉安”,这些幻想都是写给一个特定的读者/听众,“吉莉安”本身就是每位作者想象中的一个幻想。