Sigourney Weaver was not the first option for the role of Ellen Ripley in ‘Alien; The eighth passenger ‘. Ridley Scott thought of Meryl Streep, but the star of ‘The Madison’s bridges’ suffered the loss of his partner, so they had to Believe new options. The funny thing is that the original script was not written for either, mainly because the screenwriter thought the protagonist would be a man.
In July 2020, Empire Magazine published that despite the fact that the protagonist’s genre had changed, The filmmakers did not modify a single script line. The Weaver herself knew that the paper had originally written to a man: “Yes, but I was not surprised. I think they told me shortly before the camera test,” he said.
Why did they change from man to woman?
The decision was proposed by the executives of the study, as Ridley Scott himself has revealed in statements to the Times: “I think The idea came from Alan Ladd JR ”, the then president of 20th Century Fox. According to Scott, he told them why Ripley couldn’t be a woman. After a long pause he made the decision. “I thought, why not? It’s a fresh direction.”
Sigourney Weaver became an icon and his character, Ellen Ripley, a real cinema legend. He interpreted again in ‘Aliens 2: The return’, ‘Aliens 3 ′ and’ Alien 4 ′. The actress does not close the doors to return, says it is not impossiblebut also adds that the character needs a well -deserved rest.
After ‘Alien: Romulus’, The sequel to the movie is already underwaybut before the series ‘Alien: Earth’ will arrive, which opens this summer.
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