Sideshow: Gillian Anderson 'X-Files' wage gap

Gillian Anderson isn't having any of that good ol' boy Hollywood sexism. In an interview with the Daily Beast, The X-Files star says she was initially offered half the money of her male costar, David Duchovny, for the revival of the series, starting at 10 p.m. Sunday on Fox.

"It was shocking to me, given all the work that I had done in the past to get us to be paid fairly. I worked really hard toward that and finally got somewhere with it," Anderson said.

The same thing happened during the show's 1990s heyday. "Even in interviews in the last few years, people have said to me, 'I can't believe that happened. How did you feel about it? That is insane.' And my response always was, 'That was then, this is now.' And then it happened again! I don't even know what to say about it," she adds. "It is . . . sad. It is sad."

The academy is either making great strides for equality or doing some massive damage control, depending on how cynical you are.

After much criticism about the overall whiteness of the 2016 Oscar nominations, the academy voted unanimously to make moves to increase the number of people of color and women in its ranks by 2020.

"The academy is going to lead and not wait for the industry to catch up," president Cheryl Boone Isaacs said. "These new measures regarding governance and voting will have an immediate impact and begin the process of significantly changing our membership composition." How will the academy do it? A bunch of ways, namely changes in the rules of membership (it's no longer a lifetime gig) and an ambitious campaign for new members.