{"id":741359,"date":"2026-08-18T01:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T01:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741359\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T01:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T01:14:09","slug":"gillian-anderson-felt-betrayed-after-the-salt-path-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741359\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillian Anderson felt &#8216;betrayed&#8217; after The Salt Path allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Next month, the Salt Path film will be released across the United States by Rialto Distribution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anderson, who plays Win, and Jason Isaac, who plays Moth, have spoken about the controversy that clouded its UK release for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She described the situation as &#8220;really disappointing&#8221; in an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/life-style\/celebrity\/article\/gillian-anderson-interview-teenage-sex-and-death-camp-miasma-vqjc2zl6s\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> interview with The Times, external<\/a> after spending time with the Winns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We had been so surprised by its success: &#8216;What, really, this film about two old people going on a walk?&#8217; It felt like such a betrayal because we&#8217;d spent time with [the Winns],&#8221; she told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Times said she had not heard from the couple since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/movies\/gillian-anderson-the-salt-path-controversy-exclusive-newsupdate\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Times, external<\/a>, Anderson added it was &#8220;very unfortunate&#8221; as the film was &#8220;doing really well in the UK \u2013 beyond my expectations&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think we were about to sign with Sony Classics for the United States the week when the article came out, so it sucked, and continues to suck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that she hoped audiences would be able to experience the film &#8220;as its own entity&#8221; regardless of the controversy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next month, the Salt Path film will be released across the United States by Rialto Distribution. Anderson, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-741359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}