Sigourney Weaver is a giant of science - fiction movies . Few histrion have had a career in the genre as fertile as hers , and almost nobody ’s played such diverse roles . So we were excited to geek out with her about scientific discipline fabrication .
While Weaver was doing press for Paul this past weekend , we have the opportunity to sit down with her and a small group of other reporters . And we took the opportunity to ask her about her incredible career in science fiction films .
One of the things that amaze us about your career in science fabrication picture show is that you ’ve never played the same part twice . You ’ve always managed to play very different character . How do you mean you ’ve managed that ?
I would suppose it was a witting choice , because you do n’t like to replicate yourself . Even with the Alien quadrilogy , or whatever it is , I tried to have enough chemically changing in Ripley so that she was all over the lieu . But that ’s the joy of being an histrion is you do n’t have to repeat yourself . And I think there ’s so many … especially in clowning , there ’s so much snuff it on . And in science fiction and fantasy . I just think the movie industriousness ’s in very good shape . In action mechanism movies , I think Avatar has throw away things a bit for a loop , just because the 3 - D was so spectacular , and the industriousness needs to catch up to the level of that 3 - D.
You ’ve gone from being an action hero to a scientist , who ’s the only one who understands the science of what ’s pass away on .
I ’ve been so lucky , I purloin myself every Clarence Day .
How do you equate the drollery in Paul with Galaxy Quest ?
Like Galaxy Quest , both of these movies have so much heart . Because it walks a okay line . You could make fun of these actors , because they ’re all in so much agony . But at the same fourth dimension , it was done from a point of aspect of , “ We bed these the great unwashed . ” You love the characters in Paul — maybe not my grapheme — but you get laid the characters in Paul , and you love Paul . It ’s what we grew up with . The melodic theme of an special - terrestrial who does n’t have a brain this routine [ wee-wee huge brain gesture ] and tries to kill you , and all these things we grew up with … This is where ET go out off , Paul picks up . I think in a exciting , moving , risible way he ’s one of us .
Later on , we were all talking about Comic Con — not surprisingly , given the fact that Paul has a vast sequence that takes position at SDCC . Everyone gibe that Paul does n’t satirise Comic Con or limn it as a nest of weirdos . And in fact , Weaver says she think SDCC has gone too mainstream :
I do n’t see people dressed up [ as much ] . I think in the old day everyone really used to dress up hatful , and now everyone look like they could pass [ for normal ] … The big business part [ is taking over . ] It ’s kind of Cannes for nerds . and I think that ’s too unfit in a fashion . I mean , you would have to be careful that it does n’t swop over to a purely commercial-grade affair . And I do n’t think there ’s any danger of that because the passion of the fan is so torrid and they ’re so smart and so out there , that they actually shadow the business aspect , which gets bigger every twelvemonth .
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