25 Things You Didn't Know About Alien

5. Scott Suggested Having 2 Children And An Adult Strapped Together To Play The Alien

Alien 1979
20th Century Fox

At some point between deciding against an animatronic model for the alien and ultimately casting Bolaji Badejo to fill the suit, Ridley Scott had some... interesting ideas about how to bring the creature to life.

One such idea was to strap two children together and then strap them to an adult, wrapping them in rubber for the alien's skin. It's difficult to imagine what this could possibly have looked like, but is probably safe to say that such a monstrous interpretation of a pantomime horse wouldn't have been anything like as effective as Badejo's portrayal of the iconic creature.

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