Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen an alien crash-lands on Earth and takes over the body of a small-town doctor in Syfy’s “Resident Alien,” he spends hours rewinding and mimicking the same lines of dialogue from “Law & Order” in order to learn how to walk, talk and interact with humans.
But as much as he intends to utilize those lessons when venturing out in town, “life comes at him fast,” Alan Tudyk, who plays the alien, admits.
And this, more often than not, sees him reacting as his honest self as a “novice human” in many situations. For that, Tudyk tells Variety he drew upon his own tutelage of clowns.The alien, called Harry because that is the name of the man whose body he is inhabiting, may be on a mission to wipe out.
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