Ripley Clone 7
The last one, the number 7 clone is the one that is still alive. That was a
mechanical body that was blended to a makeup peace on Sigourney's neck right
under her jaw line. She was on a slant board with her head coming up through
the table and we grafted this mechanical body onto that. There were six or seven
puppeteers under the floor with her making the body breath, twitch and move.
Sigourney is great because she really loves to push the limits of things.
She will make herself look as bad as necessary. She has a great sense of humor
and that sense of humor shows more now, maybe it is because she has just gotten
used to working with us, but at this point it is the only thing that gets us
through because this stuff is so outrageous and outlandish. She really does
carry the emotional throughline through all these films, after all it is her
and the aliens the people are coming in to see
There are some things that she says she would prefer not to see until we get on
set in order to keep it fresh and new. This was the case with the clones. At
one point she wanted to see what she looked like so we held a mirror up and
showed here the way her clone body looked and she just went "uhhhaaa". She in
turn used that to create the stress and sadness that that character was supposed
to be feeling. That was a great scene, she really plaid that with whole hearted
commitment. She really sells the reality of this stuff.