Actress Sigourney Weaver paid tribute to her Alien co-star Yaphet Kotto today, recalling the late actor’s intensity when the two were making the iconic 1979 sci-fi thriller.“Every day Yaphet Kotto blew me away on the set of Alien,” Weaver wrote in a short statement. “He just went for it in every scene, making the stakes higher and higher and giving each scene a terrifying reality.
It was a nonstop master class for me and I will always be grateful to him.”Weaver ended her remembrance with the sign-off: “Rest In Peace Parker…Over and out, Ripley.”Kotto, who died Monday at age 81, played chief engineer Dennis Parker in Alien, who almost makes it off the creature-beleaguered Nostromo, but of course Weaver’s Warrant Officer Ripley is the only
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