On the shuttle, however, Ripley discovers that the Xenomorph has stowed away, sleeping in a corner. Ripley opens the airlock and shoots the Xenomorph out into space with a harpoon gun. She pushes ...

Of course, history played out in its own fun way, as the suggestion to make Ellen Ripley Alien’s witty survivor was apparently made on the studio level. In a 2020 L.A. Times interview with ...

Weaver starred in the original "Alien" as Ellen Ripley, and for Spaeny, the draw of that character was how "unassuming" she starts out. "She's sort of — it becomes survival. You don't sort of ...