In this Oct. 12, 2013 file photo, actors Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny attend "The Truth Is Here: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson on The X-Files" at The Paley Center for Media, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
NEW YORK (AP) --
Agents Mulder and Scully are making their television return.
Fox announced Tuesday that it will air a six-episode run of new episodes of "The X-Files" that will begin this summer. Stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will reprise their roles as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
The show's creator, Chris Carter, said that he considers the show's absence like a "13-year commercial break." Carter said that "the good news is the world has only gotten that much stranger."
"The X-Files" premiered on Fox in September 1993 and ran for nine seasons. Fox wasn't releasing further details about the revived show.
This image released by Netflix shows Karla Sofía Gascón, left, and Adriana Paz in a scene from "Emilia Pérez." (Shanna Besson/Netflix via AP)
Karla Sofía Gascón, the Oscar-nominated trans actor and star of the movie "Emilia Pérez," is apologizing for her old posts on social media that denigrated Islam and that called George Floyd "a drug addict and a hustler."
"As someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering all too well and I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain," the actor said in a statement via Netflix, where her film can be streamed. "All my life I have fought for a better world. I believe light will always triumph over darkness."
Gascón made history as the first transgender performer to be nominated for the Oscar for best actress, helping make "Emilia Pérez" the most nominated film going into next month's show. Netflix will be hoping the controversy doesn't derail the film's Oscar chances.
Old posts from Gascon's account on Twitter resurfaced this week, some going as far back as 2016, that took aim at Muslims' dress, language and culture in her native Spain. She also suggested that Islam be banned.
And less than a month after George Floyd, a Black man, who was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer in 2020, prompting a national reckoning with police brutality and racism, Gascón offered her assessment of Floyd as a drug addict who "very few people ever cared" for.
Gascón was a regular in Mexican telenovelas before transitioning in 2018. In "Emilia Pérez," she plays both a menacing cartel kingpin and the woman who emerges after the kingpin fakes his own death, Emilia Pérez. Years later, Emilia contacts the lawyer who facilitated her transition (Zoe Saldaña) to help her reunite with her wife (Selena Gomez) and their children.
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