Lead actress in Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant recently sat down with BBC One's The One Show last night to discuss her role in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, but also briefly touched on her upcoming role in Alien: Covenant.
During the interview which you can watch below (at about 27 mins in), Waterston explains how Ridley Scott enjoys creating a genuinely scary environment on-set, to elicit real fear and emotion from the actors. In one such instance, she recalls one scene where she was being chased by "enormous Aliens" while attempting to get away in a cumbersome suit.
I was sort of running towards the trouble in Fantastic Beasts, whereas in Alien I’m running from it. Ridley is a little sadistic. He likes it to feel pretty scary on set. There were days when there were really enormous Aliens chasing me and I was in a cumbersome spacesuit.
Waterston is a relatively tall woman, so for her to describe the Aliens as enormous means they truly will be quite large. We know there will be more than one form of Alien unleashed in Covenant - one referred to as Neomorphs and at least one, possible two more. Just how large these Neomorphs will be we're unsure of.
The unused Ultramorph, from Ridley Scott's Prometheus concepts will unfortunately not be making an appearance in Alien: Covenant.
Thanks to AvPGalaxy for the heads up.
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