Sigourney Weaver Reveals Her Favorite ALIEN Movie and Discusses Why She Loves Working with James Cameron
In a recent interview with Collider, Sigourney Weaver opened up about her career and discusses what she loves about working with James Cameron, what movie she’s most proud of, and she also reveals what her favorite film in the Alien franchise is.
I’m a huge fan of Weaver, so it’s cool to get some additional insight on her career and how she feels about certain things. As you know, she’s worked with Cameron a few times in her career, and when talking about what she loves about working with him, she explained:
“The way I look at Jim’s movies, what I think will surprise people is what amazingly intense emotional stories these are. So, yes, we did great state-of-the-art performance capture and goodness knows all of the other things that he doing underwater, that will be dazzling technically. What I really admire is that he’s often invented a lot of these things because he wants the emotional power of the stories to come through. In that sense, he’s a real traditionalist, as well. He’s not doing far off, crazy sci-fi stuff. He’s really telling a very intimate story about an indigenous people and the corporations that come and almost wipe them out.”
Cameron has made some incredible films in his career. I love what he’s done and I’m excited to see how his upcoming Avatar sequels turn out. One of my favorite films that Cameron has made is Aliens and when asked what her favorite Alien film is, Weaver’s answer was similar and she explains why:
“Oh, goodness, that’s difficult. The best-constructed story for the character to tell was in Aliens, just because Jim [Cameron] has such an amazing sense of structure of story. To take this character out of hyper-sleep, have no one believe her, have her be exiled into this limbo land where no one believes her and her family’s dead. The whole set-up for Ripley in Aliens and then what she ends up doing and what it, finding this new family by the end. The whole structure of that story, to me, was gold. I always felt that I could jump up and down on it. It was such a great, supportive, arc for the character. In that sense, the second one for Ripley is probably the most satisfying.”
She makes some great points there about what makes Aliens so great. That movie never gets old. When asked about what movie in her career she’s most proud of, she revealed that it’s the 1999 film The Map of the World:
“That would probably be A Map of the World, which I did with Kathleen Kennedy. I had the opportunity to see that at a wonderful film festival in Barbados. The festival’s theme is that films are about resiliency and rebirth. A Map of the World is very, very much about that. I watched the movie and it held up so well. The character was so interesting and I was so proud of it. It’s one of the movies that I’m sorry people didn’t see. It was such an interesting movie and there were good actors in it, like Julianne Moore and David Strathairn. It’s good stuff.”
This is a movie that I’ve actually never seen before, but it’s now on my list of movies to watch.