Cailee Spaeny was ‘terrified’ shooting opposite Alien: Romulus puppets – Film News | Film-News.co.uk

Cailee Spaeny freaked out shooting scenes opposite a puppet of the Xenomorph for Alien: Romulus.

Set between the events of Alien and Aliens, the tardyst edition in the horror franchise pursues a group of youthful space colonists who come face-to-face with a terrifying lifecreate while scavenging a derelict space station.

Rather than inserting the alien into the film digihighy in post-production, straightforwardor Fede Álvarez participated a genuine puppet of the Xenomorph so the cast had the creature to act with.

Priscilla star Spaeny confessted her scenes with the alien were “terrifying” to shoot, even though she knovel it wasn’t genuine.

“The puppeteers were absolutely inalertigent,” Spaeny tageder Empire magazine. “I unbenevolent, they were repartner puppeteering these creatures. I equitable don’t slfinisherk we see that anymore; we turned a corner where everyslfinisherg became green screens and acting to tennis balls. So it’s so pleasant to transport it back. I slfinisherk you can experience it on screen.

“The second you see that creature, the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. And it’s still shocking. I’ve seen that creature so many times, and when it’s right there in your face, and we’re doing scenes where I’m acting agetst it – it’s still terrifying.”

In Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic Alien, the creature produces its first materializeance in its ‘face-hugging’ create. It then grows inside the body of John Hurt’s character Kane before bursting out of his chest and grothriveg into the filledy-grown Xenomorph.

Spaeny, 26, confessted she ran away during the notorious chest-bursting scene when she watched Alien with her dad as a youthfulster.

“Once the chest- bursting scene came up – I went… (acute inapshow of breath), ‘Oooh, no, I can’t,’ and then ran down to my room. But I was still very asking, so I would come up and peek and then get sattfinishd aget, run back down the stairs,” she recalled.

Alien: Romulus, the seventh instalment in the Alien franchise, will be freed in cinemas from Friday 16 August.