Hug your face tight, we’re here with “Alien: Romulus” star Aileen Wu to chat stepping into franchises blind, the creature and filming horrors they faced, and adjusting from stage to screen.
This interview contains spoilers for the film.
More about “Alien: Romulus”:
This truly terrifying sci-fi horror-thriller takes the phenomenally successful “Alien” franchise back to its iconic roots. While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young colonizers come face-to-face with the most relentless and deadly life form in the universe. Starring Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn and Aileen Wu, “Alien: Romulus” is directed by horror master Fede Alvarez from a screenplay by Alvarez and frequent collaborator Rodo Sayagues based on characters created by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett. Ridley Scott — who directed the original “Alien” and the series entries “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant” — produces with Michael Pruss and Walter Hill.
More about Aileen Wu:
She is a Chinese Canadian actor, director, writer, and producer, who has cemented herself as one of the industry’s rising stars.
Wu is an accomplished stage actor, having starred in numerous productions including her off- Broadway acting debut in Smith Street Stage’s adaptation “Lear: That Old Man I Used to Know.” She also wrote and directed an original off-Broadway Chinese play “Here’s a Blue Morpho for You,” which premiered at the Rattlestick Theatre. Some of her producing credits include the theatre documentary “Hamlet: Rehearsed,” as well as the award-winning ultra-short film “Closing Doors.”
Wu is a graduate of New York University’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, having earned her BFA. She is also a graduate of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
“Alien: Romulus” is streaming now on Hulu, and will be on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD December 3rd.
