u/Carbuncle4643 — reddlx

Sam: I think one of the scariest things I've ever seen was the first Alien and I was kind of hoping we would do something that was like Alien number one, which I think is an extraordinary masterpiece when it comes to horror. The film that you see, my understanding is when I saw it, I thought, I don't think this is quite the film we made. And I think Paul had, it was either the studio or the producers, there was quite a lot of interference when it came to it. It's a long film. I think they cut it down and I remember shooting scenes for that film that don't exist. It's one of these films that has an afterlife, people come to appreciate it later. There's been a lot of pressure for a director's cut but apparently that's not possible because they stored the negative in a salt mine or something, don't ever store things with salt you know because they rust and apparently the negative is unusable and so the director's cut is not possible. So it might have been a better film but i think it's a film that works pretty well and in the end - this happens to me sometimes - in films I turn into a monster and a very unappealing monster. It was something like I would have to get up at 1 in the morning, I would get to Pinewood at 2 and I would be completed I was kind of naked and I had all this stuff and blood and things on me and I would be ready by 10:00 a.m. It was eight hours for makeup and most of it standing up. That was an endurance test and we were shooting on the James Bond stage actually, which is the biggest stage at that point in Pinewood, which was freezing cold. It was midwinter so there I was sort of naked with some rubber stuff and a lot of blood and in between shots had a heater and I could stand with my back to the heater, but then I would dry out, all the blood would dry out so they'd have to wet me again. Then I'd turn around and get warm on this side. It was a hellish time. Luckily it was two weeks being a monster and then I was back to being in a space suit again.