Nothing is as it seems.
Gillian Anderson stands in the middle of a New York street wearing little more than a pair of black gloves and some transparent trousers. Even on New York's Lower East Side this might seem a little outlandish, but Anderson is more bothered by the chilly breeze than by being half-naked and surrounded by strangers. The New York setting, is little more than a facade, a set designer's construction for NYPD Blue which is filmed here at Twentieth Century Fox Studios in Century City in Los Angeles, where Gillian Anderson is being photographed for Esquirer. Sometimes the streets double as a backdrop for Fox's hospital drama Chicago Hope . A Fox employee tells me that the apparently authentic graffiti is carefully rendered to ensure that gang passions are not inflamed.