Them Superlatives: Gillian Anderson Is “Mother of the Year”

Them Superlatives are awards for our favorite people made up by our favorite people.To honor Gillian Anderson, the resplendent star of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, as our “Mother of the Year” we asked none other than her screen partner, Hannah Einbinder, to pen a tribute. Read Einbinder’s hilarious and heartfelt message below:Gillian Anderson is mother in many senses. In multiple ways.I mean, for starters, she literally does have children. In the literal sense, she is a mother, right? A mother to three specific individuals who are wonderful in their own right. I would say that those three are mother, and the chain goes on and on. I think mother is genetic and it’s also not limited to gender. We know that, obviously.She is mother, of course, as we define it culturally. She is powerful. She is iconic. She is nurturing and caring for the masses by going out in public and showing herself. That is a caring act, for all of us as a community.She is also mother in the sense that she does take care. I can think of a million instances when we were shooting Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma where she was an advocate and an emotional support for me.And, you know, I think that mother is a state of mind — and she’s in that state of mind pretty much 24/7. It’s no question, to me or to anyone else, that Gillian Anderson is the Mother of the Year and perhaps the decade and, well, dare I say, the century. — Hannah EinbinderTeenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is in theaters August 7.