Sigourney Weaver Reveals Her Take on "Alien: Earth" After Starring in Movie Franchise: 'Can't Believe I'm Watching TV' (Exclusive) Carson Blackwelder, Nigel SmithSeptember 9, 2025 at 3:58 AM 0 Michael Hurcomb/Shutterstock; Patrick Brown/FX Sigourney Weaver at the 2025 Toronto International Film Fest...
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Carson Blackwelder, Nigel SmithSeptember 9, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Sigourney Weaver at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival (L); Sydney Chandler as Wendy in 'Alien: Earth' (R) -
Sigourney Weaver revealed why she is "really enjoying" the new TV series, Alien: Earth
The actress, who played Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise, praised Noah Hawley's new series, telling PEOPLE, "What I admire about it is the scope is so much more profound than just an Alien movie"
Alien: Earth airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on FX and Hulu
Alien: Earth has the seal of approval from Ellen Ripley herself.
"I'm really enjoying it," Sigourney Weaver — who played Ellen Ripley — said at the PEOPLE/EW and Shutterstock Studio at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, Sept. 8, while promoting her new movie, Dust Bunny.
"What I admire about it is the scope is so much more profound than just an Alien movie," the actress, 75, added. "It's about our world and what's dominating the world in 100 years, and to me it's right on."
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Sigourney Weaver in 'Alien'Weaver applauded series creator Noah Hawley for what he's adding to the Alien universe.
Weaver praised Hawley's concept of the "new creatures based on children," referencing the hybrids, synthetic beings with human consciousness, like Sydney Chandler's Wendy.
"All these things are so remarkable and they're just building and building and building," she said.
In addition to hybrids, the series also features cyborgs, cybernetically-enhanced humans like Babou Ceesay's Morrow, and synthetics, artificially intelligent beings like Timothy Olyphant's Kirsh.
"And the monsters that he's also bringing in are just terrifying. It's like, we don't have enough problems with the alien, we need 50 more," Weaver gushed. "I can't believe I'm watching TV."
Weaver's career-defining work in the Alien films netted her an Academy Award nomination.
After starring in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror film Alien in 1979, Weaver returned as the big-screen heroine in James Cameron's sci-fi action follow-up Aliens in 1986.
This role — which birthed the iconic line, "Get away from her, you bitch!" — snagged her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, a rare recognition for a genre film.
Weaver would return as Ripley in David Fincher's Alien 3 in 1992 and as clones of the character in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien Resurrection in 1997, though the Alien franchise has continued on.
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Sydney Chandler as Wendy in 'Alien: Earth'Alien: Earth is set in 2120, two years before the events of Alien.
The series centers around a deep-space research vessel crash-lands on Earth, bringing with it mysterious and terrifying life forms, such as the Xenomorph.
Wendy and the other hybrids — created by Prodigy Corporation CEO Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin) and known as the "Lost Boys," another reference to Peter Pan — set out to encounter the alien beings.
Per the series synopsis, Wendy and the "Lost Boys" come "face-to-face with the planet's biggest threat" on their mission.
The series also stars Alex Lawther, Adrian Edmondson, David Rysdahl, Essie Davis, Lily Newmark, Erana James, Adarsh Gourav, Jonathan Ajayi, Kit Young, Diêm Camille, Moe Bar-El and Sandra Yi Sencindiver.
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Alien: Earth airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on FX and Hulu.
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