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I thought it was a small movie
- "I thought it was a small movie," Weaver told Reuters ahead of the 40th anniversary of the film's release. "It had a tiny cast and a brilliant young director. I liked the part... I didn't think I was going to play Henry V, but I thought I can play Ripley."
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May 23, 2019 · LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sigourney Weaver was an unknown 28-year-old stage actress when she landed the role of Ripley in director Ridley Scott's now classic sci-fi horror movie "Alien."
May 24, 2019 · Sigourney Weaver was an unknown 28-year-old stage actress when she landed the role of Ripley in director Ridley Scott 's now classic sci-fi horror movie Alien.
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Weaver ended up playing the game-changing Ripley only after a last-second change to the script that previously had an all-male cast. In her interview with Reuters, she said she believes the reason that a woman was cast as the final survivor in that film was shock value, because no one would think a woman would be the last "man" standing so to speak...
As it's always about the bottom line in Hollywood, "Alien" showed producers what a leading lady in this type of role could bring in. With a paltry production budget of just around $11 million, "Alien" would go on to dominate the box office of 1979, bringing in more than $100 million worldwide. It was also No. 1 at theaters for four straight weeks, ...
Daenerys Targaryen, Sarah Connor, even Katniss Everdeen have all taken cues about being strong and unrelenting in the face of grave danger and those cues came from Weaver's Ripley. Jennifer Lawrence, Charlize Theron and so many others have vocalized what Weaver's character meant to them, stepping into their roles as heroines. "I think we would be r...
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May 24, 2019 · Sigourney Weaver was an unknown 28-year-old stage actress when she landed the role of Ripley in director Ridley Scott’s now classic sci-fi horror movie Alien.
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Nov 13, 2023 · Sigourney Weaver has never commented on the alternate ending, although her commentary along with Scott about the sexual undertones of the Xenomorph — and her gleefully weird clone...
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Sigourney Weaver became the star of the Alien films, reprising her role as Ripley in three sequels between 1986 and 1997. She did not appear in either of the Alien vs. Predator crossovers of the 2000s, but has expressed interest in doing a fifth Alien film.
Aug 15, 2022 · Not only was Sigourney Weaver focused on theater before making the movie "Alien," but there was one other big reason she was ho-hum about auditioning — she did not think the script was great.
