The X-Files star has been tapped to star in Season 4 of The Crown.
Gillian Anderson has been cast as former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. News of her casting comes a long time before fans of the series will ever actually get to see her on screen — viewers will have to wait more than a year as Season 3 of the Netflix drama hasn’t premiered yet.
But Anderson’s casting actually hints that the fourth season will jump to the 1980s as the Iron Lady was as Britain’s Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. Season three begins in 1963 and stars Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II, Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip, Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret and Ben Daniels as Antony Armstrong-Jones.
You can currently see Anderson in Netflix’s Sex Education.
