Two 'Alien' actors were uncredited:

A famous scene in Ridley Scott’s classic featured two youngsters to enhance the setting.

Two ‘Alien’ performers never appeared on the poster with Sigourney Weaver or Ian Holm. In one scene, Ridley Scott utilised them as duplicates to make the sets appear larger. They appear in the scene of the mummified alien, known as a space jockey, who the Nostromo crew encounters on the planet apparently emitting the SOS signal.

The producers at 20th Century Fox originally wanted to cut this sequence because they thought it didn’t add anything to the plot and wanted the Nostromo astronauts to meet the Xenomorph eggs (they were right, but we would have lost one of the film’s most disturbing sequences). To save money.

Ridley Scott built the set smaller than planned to cut costs, but he made it just as impressive by dressing his sons Jake and Luke and one of the cameramen, all pre-teens, in miniature Nostromo suits and walking around the set in wide shots. He also utilised them while the three walked about the crashed ship.

One of many practical tactics Scott used to maximise his budget. Scott bought oysters and shellfish scraps at a fishmonger the morning of filming for the deceased facehugger’s intestines. If you have a 4K copy of the film, you can see Jake and Luke’s infantile faces behind their astronaut helmets.

Sir Ridley Scott GBE (born 30 November 1937) is an English filmmaker. His speciality is directing science fiction, crime, and historical drama. His visual style is ambient and focused.[1][2][3] He is one of the highest-grossing directors and awarded the 2018 BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement, two Primetime Emmys, and a Golden Globe.[4] Queen Elizabeth II knighted him in 2003 and King Charles III made him a Knight Grand Cross in 2024.[6]

Scott, a Royal College of Art graduate, directed and designed television before turning into advertisements. He debuted as a director with The Duellists (1977) and earned fame with Alien (1979). His films depict memorable urban scenes, including 2nd-century Rome in Gladiator (2000), 12th-century Jerusalem in Kingdom of Heaven (2005), mediaeval England in Robin Hood (2010), ancient Memphis in Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014), contemporary Mogadishu in Black Hawk Down (2001), futuristic cityscapes in Blade Runner (1982), and different planets in Alien, Prometheus (2012), The Martian (2015), and Al.

Thelma & Louise, Gladiator, and Black Hawk Down earned Scott three Academy Award nominations for directing.Gladiator won the Best Picture Oscar, and The Martian was nominated. Scott and his brother Tony won a British Academy Film Award for Outstanding British Cinema Contribution in 1995.The Library of Congress included Scott’s films Alien, Blade Runner, and Thelma & Louise in the US National Film Registry as “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. Scott was voted 10th most influential in British culture by the BBC in 2004.[8] Scott received 10 Primetime Emmy nominations for his television work. Outstanding Television Film for HBO’s The Gathering Storm (2002) and Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special for History Channel’s Gettysburg (2011) were his wins.RKO 281 (1999), The Andromeda Strain (2008), and The Pillars of the Earth (2010) earned him Emmy nominations.[10]

Francis (“Frank”) Percy Scott, a Newcastle commercial shipping business partner and WWII Colonel in the Royal Engineers, and Elizabeth, née Williams, a miner’s daughter, had Scott on November 30, 1937, in South Shields.[12][13] His great-uncle Dixon Scott founded the movie chain and opened many Tyneside cinemas. The only UK newsreel cinema, Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle, is his.[14]

Scott was born two years before WWII into a military household. His father was a senior Royal Engineers officer and away for most of his childhood. His older brother Frank joined the Merchant Navy as a child, thus they rarely saw each other.[15] The family relocated about England, Wales, and Germany, where Colonel Scott was member of the post-war Allied Control Council, including Cumberland.[16] The Scott family returned to County Durham and Teesside after the war.

In 1968, Ridley and his younger brother Tony Scott, who would also make films[23], created Ridley Scott Associates (RSA), a film and commercial production firm.[24] In the 1970s, Ridley Scott collaborated with Alan Parker, Hugh Hudson, and Hugh Johnson to create RSA commercials, including the 1973 Hovis bread ad “Bike Round” (set to Dvořák’s “New World” symphony rearranged for brass) filmed in Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, Dorset.[1][25] In 2006, the UK’s favourite commercial was a nostalgia-themed one.[26][27] The Chanel No. 5 brand needed revitalisation in the 1970s to avoid being dubbed mass market and passé.[28] Chanel television ads, directed by Scott in the 1970s and 1980s, were surreal dream and seduction mini-films that “played on the same visual imagery, with the same silhouette of the bottle.”[28]

Two ‘Alien’ actors were uncredited:

A famous scene in Ridley Scott’s classic featured two youngsters to enhance the setting.

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