For the last 45 years, the xenomorphs of the Alien franchise has been mixing horror and sci-fi together. And few know more about how to make space scary than Ridley Scott, the director of Alien, Prometheus, and Alien: Covenant, in addition to his duties as a producer on Alien: Romulus. One of Romulus’ stars, David Jonsson, asked Scott for his advice about the new film, and the director’s response was hilariously blunt.
“Yeah, [Scott] was just like, ‘Don’t be shit,'” recalled Jonsson during an interview with Rolling Stone UK. “Something along the lines of that!”
In the film, Jonsson is playing a character named Andy, one of a group led by Cailee Spaeny’s Rain Carradine who are attempting to scavenge material from an abandoned ship. Naturally, the only thing they find waiting for them are hordes of facehuggers and a handful of xenomorphs. The early pics from the film suggest that Rain is the fighter of the group, and she is notably defending Andy in the pic below.
During his interview, Jonsson also credited director Fede Álvarez and 20th Century Studios for placing his faith in him and giving him a leading role in the film.
“I’m not just saying this, but the studio and Fede and all the team had supreme trust in me, and I kind of needed that.”
The film also features Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, and Aileen Wu in supporting roles. And in a nod to recent cinematic traditions, Alien: Romulus will have a grotesque popcorn bucket all of its own when it hits theaters on August 16.
