Sigourney Weaver On Absence Of Women Directors Throughout Her Career & Ridley Scott Improvising ‘Alien’ Ending: “Ridley Didn’t Really Know How To End It” — Venice
deadline.comSigourney Weaver is passing through the Venice Film Festival, speaking with the press and fans, after receiving a career achievement award at the Italian fest’s opening ceremony on Wednesday.
This afternoon during a masterclass session with young students and journalists, Weaver shared a nugget from her work on Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi flick Alien. “I remember Ridley didn’t really know how to end it,” Weaver said of the film. “Ridley was making all these drawings.
And he thought he’d keep on shooting until he figured it out. But they told him he had to finish in three days. So they did all these quick experiments and they realized if they have water against the Alien it will look like it’s burning up.
It all happened so fast. It was total improvisation.” Weaver added that throughout the production of Alien, Scott and his DoP Derek Vanlint spent their time coming up “with new ways” to shoot scenes. “They’d be in some crazy place and turning the camera upside down,” Weaver said. “It’s fabulous to be around a group of people who are single-handedly trying to tell the best story possible.
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