Saturday 6 April 2024

The two who were the Queen Alien is James Cameron's ALIENS

Aliens. Shot way back in 1985.


The two performers who were the Queen Alien re-met in 2024. That was 38.5 years after the movie - the testing, design, building, and the shoot of the Alien Queen which started in the fall of 1985.

James Cameron specifically chose Malcolm Weaver and Stuart St Paul over the many others who tested and auditioned. The movie was expecting to have a team of performers to be the Queen Alien, but James Cameron said that Malcolm Weaver and Stuart St Paul 'understood' his monster. They just got it. Stan Winston modelled the monster around their bodies.

Hear their story as they remember it.

They went inside the monster every day for months and communicated directly with James Cameron as they performed the Queen Alien, and the fight with Sigourney Weaver and Michael Biehn

Having been together for nearly six months, chatting, they opened an office at Pinewood Studios in Shed 14 just by the James Bond stage. They stored and hired stunt and flying equipment to endless movies and commercials.

The two talk of years as stunt partners, travelling the world and performing some crazy jobs. Malcolm Weaver Autographs https://www.autographica.co.uk/products/copy-of-malcolm-weaver-alien-queen-in-aliens-hand-signed-10-x-8-photo?_pos=1&_sid=c3d129e63&_ss=r