Like Messing, this wouldn't be the first time Gillian Anderson played Lucille Ball if re-cast. During Anderson's first appearance as Media on American Gods, her first materialization is as Ball. "The only experience I really had in any personal way with any of Media's characters was a photo shoot I did with Mark Seliger many eons ago where I was Lucille Ball," she previously told EW. "Funny enough, I actually looked more like Lucille Ball back [in 1997] than I do now, just in terms of the angularness of my face." Fans even tweeted, "Why do you get anyone but Gillian Anderson to play Lucille Ball?"