Veronica Cartwright, who played Lambert in the 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien, recently discussed a deleted scene with co-star Sigourney Weaver. During a recent New York Comic Con reunion panel, the stars of the movie reunited on stage. During the event, Cartwright narrated the funny behind-the-scenes moment that had the entire audience burst into laughter and smiles.
Veronica Cartwright talks actually slapping Sigourney Weaver on Alien set
Veronica Cartwright revealed how, during a scene where she had to slap Weaver, the actress playing Ellen Ripley kept evading her strikes. The scene, deleted from the final cut, appears in the Director’s cut of the film. Cartwright’s Lambert confronts Ripley after she refuses to break quarantine protocol and let her crew back on the Nostromo. Cartwright mentioned the scene, saying, “And I come in and, of course, I’m so upset. It’s in the director’s cut, but it’s not in the main movie — I went to slap Sigourney across the face because she was a bitch for not letting us in. Well, every time I went to slap Sigourney, she ducked.” (via Entertainment Weekly)
Weaver then weighed in as she remembered, “Oh no. I think you got me a couple of good times.” Cartwright then recalls, Weaver evading her slaps went on for so long, that eventually director Ridley Scott had to step in. “So, Ridley comes over to me and goes, ‘Would you just f—ing get her this time?'” she said. Cartwright had to then come up with a plan to get it done once and for all. “So, I go like that,” she demonstrated, slightly swinging her hand. “You duck and I backhanded you. And you were not a happy camper, but the pro that she (Weaver) is, she stuck with it!”
During the panel Weaver confirmed that she has had talks with Disney regarding returning to the screen as Ripley. About reading the script written by original film producer Walter Hill, she said, “I’m thinking about working with Walter to see what the rest of the story would be. It would not be running around air shafts.”
Originally reported by Elton Fernandes on Comingsoon.
