“It is a massive threat to the world”

Publisher’s note: The interview below contains major spoilers for the Alien final: Earth Season.

Believe it or not, but the final of the season of Noah HawleyFX series Alien: earth is already there. While the previous weeks have already dropped their fair share of unexpected twists and turns, many of which could reshape the extraterrestrial franchise as we know it, this week’s final, “The Real Monsters”, co-written by Hawley and Migizi Pensoneauends in a way that permanently leaves the door open for more. Wendy (Sydney Chandler) And the rest of the lost boys are about to “govern” on the island of Neverland in Prodigy, but what does that mean when the forces of Weyland-Yutani are getting closer? And what is waiting for everyone now that T. Ocellus (alias the eye) has found a new human host?

Before the first of Alien: earthThe final of the season of the season, Collider had the opportunity to sit with Chandler and break the biggest twists of his character in the episode. During the interview, which you can read below, Chandler reveals what clumsily personal noise made in the sounds of the xenomorph that she did her best to imitate, how Wendy’s identity struggle culminates in her argument with Joe (Alex Lawther), the advantages of working with Alien: earthThe artists of the creature, which the moments of closing of the final sign for Wendy as a threat, and even more.

Collider: Before entering the final, I must ask questions about the process of determining how to speak as a xenomorph.

Sydney Chandler: Yes, I was afraid. It was a kind of surprise on the page, when we got rewritings, and it just said: “Wendy opens your mouth and the extraterrestrial sound.” So I said to myself: “Oh, what will it look like?” I wanted to give myself a little physique, just to help me give life to this moment a little more. I used my mirror, and I also obtained the help of David Rysdahl, who plays Arthur, and we played with a tightness of the throat, and this kind of washing with your RS, a whistle with which I played. I did a lot of expiration and inhale and I found this bizarre position of the body that helped me to locate myself when it made the sound.

Obviously, I did not make the final sound, but funny anecdotes: I went for ADR a month or two, and I had not had breakfast, and therefore my growled stomach, and we made very calm scenes. When you make ADR, it’s noisy. I was ruminating. Our big guy from the ADR, he said: “We are trying to get the extraterrestrial sound. Can I take part of your rumbles from the stomach and play with them?” And I said to myself: “Hell yeah, guy, it would be incredible.” I think my stomach rumbles are part of the final extraterrestrial soundWhich is great.

‘Alien: Sydney chandler of the earth to work with a “real” xenomorphic

“It was quite disturbing to watch …”

I spoke with Alex [Lawther] Last week about the penultimate episode and asked him to work in front of the artists of the Xenomorphic creature. To what extent having someone physically to bounce back, in these moments, really help you as an actor?

Chandler: It helps a lot. And I’m glad you raised this, because I do not know if everyone is aware of the number of practical effects that we use. CGI is so transparent now. But the design of these costumes was simply incredible. I mean, they could drool. The second mouth could come out. They breathe. There is the tail. It gives me much more to work, because especially in these scenes richer in action, to that someone really pulls against you and to be able to dive into it, there is a real monster in front of you. This is there. You imagine anything. It was really useful.

It was beautiful to also look at their interpretation of the movements. This scene in the jungle, when we look at what the foreigner can do, they are all blows and mists of blood to come, parts of the exploding body. It was quite disturbing to watch, which helps a lot when the stranger comes out. I was in the right emotional place because we have made practical effects.

In the midst of all the action of the xenomorph, the hybrids struggle with their feeling of identity, and there is a great moment in episode 7, when Wendy, Nibs and Joe fall on the small cemetery in the jungle. Much of this season, people have alternated between calling your character Wendy or Marcy, but as an actor, how did you think of her as you played it? Was she Wendy or Marcy for you, and has she never had a special point where Wendy finally took over?

Chandler: Yes, I think the serious site is a really crucial moment. I think it is, if necessary, the moment when it fully merges with this body in which it is. And there are still questions in episode 8. She still has no complete answer. But seeing her brother on his knees on the grave and crying her sister while Wendy is there to look is a massive separation between brother and sister. I think it is an acceptance for her that she is no longer Marcy. Marcy is a skeleton in the ground, and his brother is not next to her, holding her, saying: “I’m so happy that you are alive.” His brother cries at the grave. It is therefore a massive change, probably more subconscious than aware for it.

I think This could be played more with regard to identity and his relationship with his brotherIf we manage to start again. Throughout the time, she plays with this question. Who is she? What is it? And what does she want to be? Kirsh asks this in the first episode, and I hadn’t even caught it until I came back again. But he says in the first 10 minutes: “You can be what you want to be.” I think the question on which she begins to chew is not what she is, but what does she want?

It really crares in this final conversation between Joe and Wendy, because she may not know what she is or who she is, but she knows who she does not want to be. Do you have and Alex are you preparing this scene in advance? It’s a very high moment, because Wendy has just saved Joe from the eye, but you also have the impression of stopping and taking a breath and doing it in a way that is necessary for both.

Chandler: Yes, we did not prepare for that. Alex is such a phenomenal actor with whom to work with, and I think we both have been lucky to have us as partners in this brother-sister alliance, because we worked very well. It was very natural. I trust him as an actor to help me find where I have to go. And so there was no preparation in itself, but it was an emotional scene. I also remember that we filmed it in different ways, and I am really happy with the way it came out because it is very … no pricing, but there is a subtle brutality in this scene where you see two people who love each other, except for the fact that they are very different. And where does it leave them? It is a revealing scene for her and, at the same time, isolates him more from him.

‘Alien: Sydney Chandler of the earth loved to play Wendy at full power

“I think it’s that they take power for the first time …”

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These last episodes have really made snowball in the events of the final, where Wendy and the hybrids begin in captivity but then ending with “govern” the island. How satisfying it was for you to play?

Chandler: It was an incredible experience to play, to be able to intervene in these shoes and play a character who holds his own space – and that’s it. She is quite there, and it is very threatening, and It is very powerful and authorized at these times. I think that from Wendy’s point of view, everything is fantastic. She is sort of said, “checkmate”, to the boy K, and she has the reins, I think, from an objective point of view. It is a massive threat to the world. He is a very black and white thinker. She is extremely powerful now.

When you said they resumed their power, I think it is that they take power for the first time. So what is power? What is this? What does that mean? I spoke with Jonathan [Ajayi] Earlier in an interview, and he spoke of the fact that children need an adult. At the end of the day, you are looking for an adult. It started my thought process, if we go to a season 2, what is going on there? Because all adults are in a cage and / or they are Joe. So how do they continue to grow? Who do they admire? There are a lot of question points there. But it was incredibly enriching. I personally learned a lot and I won a lot by playing this character, especially towards the end. She gave me a lot of strength.

Given the end of things, did you have conversations with Noah [Hawley] About his ideas for season 2?

Chandler: You know, I tried. Whenever I see it, I say to myself: “Today, during the day, can I know something?” And it gives me a little. I trust Noah’s vision. It has an explosive brain such as genius. I don’t know where we are going. I have no idea what will happen with Wendy. I really hope we have the chance to seeBecause we all bit the song, said, “What happened?” And I know that Noah has entered, he is ready to leave if we get green light. So I’m in the same boat as you – but if I knew, I wouldn’t tell you.