Sydney Chandler knows that she is sometimes impulsive, but in the case of Alien: earthIt won him the work.
The actress, previously seen in the film Don’t worry and the mini-series FX Gungot hold of the script for the Noah Hawley TV series based on the world of Ridley Scott horror movies. His father, actor Kyle Chandler (Friday evening lights), is the resident buff for the Second World War of his family, and his mother, Kathryn, is a history of history. But Chandler, 29, has always been the science fiction fan with his nose in a kind of genre novel.
She heard Hawley, who was busy with FX Fargowas running in Canada. So, as soon as she finished reading the script at 2 am early, she reserved a flight to find it the same day. “I called my agent and I said to myself:” Where’s Noah to Canada? And do you think there is a possibility that he lets me take him dinner so that I can tell him about this show? “”, Said Chandler Weekly entertainment. “Noah, for any reason, said yes. We have chatted for a very long time on the story and the character and why I felt so attracted by this character of Wendy.”
The public will meet Wendy on Alien: earth In the calendar of 2120, just a few years before the launch of the Nostromo spacecraft of the USCSS of 1979 Stranger. In this PAS-SO– Future reality distant full of synthetic (humanoid robots with artificial intelligence) and cyborgs (humans with artificially improved body parts), Wendy is a hybrid, a robot impregnated with human conscience. More specifically, it has a child’s brain in the body of a bot.
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Prodigy, one of the five companies that now govern the whole world (Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold are the others), is the owner of the Hybrid IP, including Wendy. Hawley also describes his earth vision in a separate interview with EW: “Let’s just say that climatic predictions are realized. It is a warmer and weetly wet planet. If we extrapolate where we are now, it is much more motivated by societies than democracies. It cannot be very wrapped in a competition for technological surveillance. The nature of power is” at the end, technological monitoring. We are therefore in the midst of a battle at this level for which has power in the human race. “”
Wendy and the hybrids play in this power struggle, but it is physically embarked on the action when a spacecraft of Weyland-Yutani landed in Prodigy City. She and her hybrid colleagues are sent to investigate the site, leading to the meeting of mysterious forms of life – including a fierce xenomorph.
“We started working with the mechanics of how these children would move physically, and Noah took us more in the space of mentality,” said Chandler about his role of hybrid. “What is the essence of a child or a young adult? How does their mind work differently from the adult spirit? The children are so present and they were not beaten by the world as much as an adult. So they trust their instinct and they do not guess.”
Timothy Olyphantwho worked with Hawley on FargoWendy’s orbit as Kirsh is also entered. Hawley refuses to disclose a lot about the character, apart from saying: “The look was his idea.”
Hawley continues: “It is a very different role for him, but he plays on something that I find so exciting about him as an actor, that is to say that he lives in this space between heroes and bad guys in a really interesting way. When he plays the hero side, he is the best guy to tie a gun and go to High-Midi.”
Babou Ceesay (known in the United States for Free fire And Killing heat) plays another mystery character who is on board the Weyland-Yutani ship before he crashed. “It is definitely linked to the way creatures come in this world,” said Hawley. But in the great tradition of the ferocious science fiction heroine franchise, established for the first time by Sigourney Weaver With Ripley, Wendy de Chandler remains at the forefront of what Hawley describes as “a very great oversized and dramatic story”.
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“I don’t even want to try to compare my character with Ripley,” said Chandler. “It’s just impossible to do. But I hope people like Wendy as much as I love her … It is my favorite character that I have ever been able to play. ”
Hawley develops: “I feel like the Stranger The franchise has a female identity, both with the character of Ripley in the films, then, of course, the fact that the extraterrestrials themselves are matriarchal, they have a queen. It looks a lot like a show focused on women. The character of Sydney is someone who tries to understand what is his role in this world and, at a certain level, does the secular question of humanity deserve to survive? »»
One of the most memorable moments of 1986 Alien Because Hawley is the line of Weaver, “I do not know what species is worse. You do not see them each other for a fucking percentage.”
“This idea of the horrible things that we are making,” continues Hawley. “Sydney plays a somewhat innocent character who finds himself trying to sail in two types of monsters. One is human and the other is space. We develop this idea that it will be up to the public which species is worse.”
Alien: earth Will be presented in the first Tuesday August 12, with the first two episodes that drop in FX at 8 p.m. He / PT, and on Hulu at 8 p.m. he. A new episode will then be presented at the first Tuesday.