Alien: Romulus London Premiere + Cailee Spaeny for Empire Magazine
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Part of the Alien: Romulus cast alongside director Fede Alvarez attended the Londom premiere of their film which opens this Friday, August 16. Absent were David Jonsson, Aileen Wu, and Isabela Merced.
Summary: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
Cailee Spaeny in Mugler
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Archie Renaux in Dior
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Spike Fearn in Emporio Armani
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Cailee Spaeny is Empire's "latest Focus digital-cover star" where they did a photoshoot and interviewed her. Excerpted are the parts pertaining to Alien: Romulus.
Was she a fan of Alien before this?
"My first memory of Alien is my dad watching it in the living room and me thinking, 'Oh, I’ll watch this.' And then once I got an idea of what it was going to be - once the chest- bursting scene came up - I went... (sharp intake of breath), 'Oooh, no, I can’t,' and then ran down to my room. But I was still very curious, so I would come up and peek and then get scared again, run back down the stairs."
What it was like to meet a xenomorph in ~real life thanks to the use of animatronics.
"The creature is so terrifying! Just the way [H.R.] Giger [designer of the original aliens] played with the human anatomy and the
sexual parts... ugh, there’s something really sort of primal. The second you see that creature, the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. And it’s still shocking. I’ve seen that creature so many times, and when it’s right there in your face, and we’re doing scenes where I’m acting against it - it’s still terrifying. The puppeteers were absolutely brilliant. I mean, they were really puppeteering these creatures. I just don’t think we see that anymore; we turned a corner where everything became green screens and acting to tennis balls. So it’s so nice to bring it back. I think you can feel it on screen. It was the same with the sets: all the sets were built. So that ship feels massive, because when we’re running down the hall, we’re not having to reuse hall space to keep running - those halls were there, and it was endless."
Did she feel the weight of the kind of role Sigourney Weaver previously played and the history of the franchise [she's NOT playing Ripley]?
"I absolutely love Sigourney in every way. [But] I took that all in and tried to do my own thing, because if you start going down, like, 'How am I gonna fill those shoes?', then you just won’t show up to work."
Stepping into more adult roles now with this one?
"Hopefully! I think [Alien] was another reaction [to what came before]. [In Priscilla, I was] playing this delicate woman who was stifled the whole time, she’s in this gilded cage, and all I wanted to do was like... get in the dirt. I want to just roll around. I want the blood, the sweat, the tears. Let that all go and just be in it with Alien. That was just something I needed. It always feels like there’s some parallel between my life and the roles that I play. I think I need to move on. Find something else. I am growing up."
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Full Empire interview with Spaeny HERE
Part of the Alien: Romulus cast alongside director Fede Alvarez attended the Londom premiere of their film which opens this Friday, August 16. Absent were David Jonsson, Aileen Wu, and Isabela Merced.
Summary: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
Cailee Spaeny in Mugler
https://instagram.com/p/C-seL7kIeEN
Archie Renaux in Dior
https://instagram.com/p/C-rwrQptwB-
Spike Fearn in Emporio Armani
https://instagram.com/p/C-rzqJbt671
------
https://instagram.com/p/C-seEihtBSt
Cailee Spaeny is Empire's "latest Focus digital-cover star" where they did a photoshoot and interviewed her. Excerpted are the parts pertaining to Alien: Romulus.
Was she a fan of Alien before this?
"My first memory of Alien is my dad watching it in the living room and me thinking, 'Oh, I’ll watch this.' And then once I got an idea of what it was going to be - once the chest- bursting scene came up - I went... (sharp intake of breath), 'Oooh, no, I can’t,' and then ran down to my room. But I was still very curious, so I would come up and peek and then get scared again, run back down the stairs."
What it was like to meet a xenomorph in ~real life thanks to the use of animatronics.
"The creature is so terrifying! Just the way [H.R.] Giger [designer of the original aliens] played with the human anatomy and the
sexual parts... ugh, there’s something really sort of primal. The second you see that creature, the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. And it’s still shocking. I’ve seen that creature so many times, and when it’s right there in your face, and we’re doing scenes where I’m acting against it - it’s still terrifying. The puppeteers were absolutely brilliant. I mean, they were really puppeteering these creatures. I just don’t think we see that anymore; we turned a corner where everything became green screens and acting to tennis balls. So it’s so nice to bring it back. I think you can feel it on screen. It was the same with the sets: all the sets were built. So that ship feels massive, because when we’re running down the hall, we’re not having to reuse hall space to keep running - those halls were there, and it was endless."
Did she feel the weight of the kind of role Sigourney Weaver previously played and the history of the franchise [she's NOT playing Ripley]?
"I absolutely love Sigourney in every way. [But] I took that all in and tried to do my own thing, because if you start going down, like, 'How am I gonna fill those shoes?', then you just won’t show up to work."
Stepping into more adult roles now with this one?
"Hopefully! I think [Alien] was another reaction [to what came before]. [In Priscilla, I was] playing this delicate woman who was stifled the whole time, she’s in this gilded cage, and all I wanted to do was like... get in the dirt. I want to just roll around. I want the blood, the sweat, the tears. Let that all go and just be in it with Alien. That was just something I needed. It always feels like there’s some parallel between my life and the roles that I play. I think I need to move on. Find something else. I am growing up."
source:1/2/3/4/5
Full Empire interview with Spaeny HERE