John Hurt Alien Scene Mythburster (BIFF 2010)

John Hurts talks about Quentin Crisp's affect on his career and how the famous scene from Alien, where the creature bursts from his stomach, was achieved. John Hurt appeared at BIFF 2010 to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Film & Animation

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• John Hurt
• John
• Hurt
• Alien
• death
• scene
• chestburster
• BIFF
• Tony Earnshaw
• myth
• sigourney Weaver

[neonatalpenguin]

John Hurt is everything an actor should be.

[MarkArandjus]

I could listen to John Hurt's voice like music ♥

[andross637]

@smithhedgehog Yeah. Except she didn't murder Veronica Cartwright, just her career.

[smithhedgehog]

@andross637 Did you just compare sigourney weaver to Ted Bundy? lol

[andross637]

@smithhedgehog Nope, haven't met Ted Bundy either.

[smithhedgehog]

@andross637 have you met her then?

[andross637]

Dreadful woman.

[AmusedChild]

The scene that Hurt describes with the alien not poking through is available on the 2-DVD set in the production documentary - you can see the rushes. What really impressed me was his concentration, staying in character while people were yelling, "We can't see it yet! It hasn't poked through yet!" etc. The whole cast was really professional.

[AmusedChild]

@fatg1t I'll bet that if you wrote to Hurt and told this story he would send you another photograph. Both he and his brother seem to be very kind.

[notreallydavid]

Touch of Rowley Birkin QC - and none the worse for that.

[RaikenXion]

Hes a legend, the way he played that scene, so realistic, he made that scene wot it is, it wud hav never worked without that extraordinary realistic performance he gave. Some great acting. I just want to say the greatest actors in films r English sorry that is my opinion lol.

[smithhedgehog]

I like how John hints that sigourney weaver is meant to be 'difficult'