Actress Sigourney Weaver said she was not even sure if she wanted to be in a movie when she first auditioned for Alien.
The 67-year-old actress came from a theatre background and said she wasn’t sure if she wanted to sign up for a Hollywood movie when she stood in front of the science fiction franchise’s director, Ridley Scott, at her audition for the 1979 film, reported People magazine.
“I remember that [director] Ridley built an entire set for me just for the audition. I was from the theatre. I wasn’t even sure I wanted to be in a movie!
“I think I was the only person they tested. What was so helpful to me is that we did a run-through of several scenes. Ridley went out of his way to make sure that I had a very real world in which to be,” Sigourney said.
