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How Bolaji Badejo’s performance brought Alien’s xenomorph to life
Bolaji Badejo, a year-old Nigerian studying in London, decided to go out for a drink in Soho one evening in He had no prior acting experience, but at nearly seven feet tall, he caught the attention of a casting director. Director Ridley Scott later recounted their first meeting in a interview. “I said, ‘Do you want to be in the movies?’ He said ‘sure,’ and he became the Alien.”
The formidable creature at the heart of Alien, a nightmarish bio-mechanical design from surrealist HR Giger, needed an actor of a particular build to play it. “We had this vision of a praying mantis,” Associate Producer Ivor Powell told CNN in , “we needed somebody incredibly tall with very long legs, so when they crouched down it gave the impression of an insect.”
“He had a figure like a Giacometti sculpture,” Ridley Scott said in a interview. If there was any doubt over how much of Badejo’s physicality contributed to the terror of the rare
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Bolaji Badejo was a graphic designer from Lagos. He is primarily remembered for his single acting role, playing the titular predatory alien in the science fiction-horror film Alien ().The film was a box-office hit, having earned a worldwide gross of US$ million by estimates.
In , Badejo was born in Lagos, Colonial Nigeria. At the time, Nigeria was a British colony. Badejo's family was of Yoruba descent, an ethnic group estimated to represent about 16% of the country 's population. Badejo's father would later serve as the director-general of the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, a state-owned radio-broadcasting organization.
Badejo decided to follow a career as a visual artist. He studied abroad in the United States before moving to London, England, to get specialized training as a graphic designer. Bodejo was unusually tall, standing at a height of meters (6 feet and 10 inches). Director Ridley Scott's casting crew was seeking a tall person to play the creature