It all began, famously, in a fight to the death with an acid-blooded Xenomorph in Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi. As the sole survivor aboard the Nostromo space-tug, she lived to make three sequels and revolutionised action movies in the process. The taciturn, no-nonsense toughness Weaver brought to Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley gave cinema its first feminist in space, a flame-wielding intergalactic warrior – no shrieking or cute outfits or romantic interest – who paved the way forand beyond.
Acting, however, was still just a hobby: “I backed into this totally,” she says. “I was driven, but I don’t know that I was driven to become an actress. I thought, I’ll just run around and audition for these drama schools, I’m sure they’ll turn me down.” Instead they all accepted, and she headed back east to Yale – Meryl Streep was a fellow student.
Comedy, Weaver says, is what she relishes most – and she’s proved herself a good sport when it comes to satirising her own sci-fi work on the likes of. The comic gene she traces back to her uncle, “Doodles” Weaver, a rubber-faced 50s comedian. “Comedy was king in my family,” she says. At school, towering over her fellow pupils, Weaver had transformed herself into class clown .
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