He lay there throughout the long process of the setup. John kind of lounged on the chair under it on a cushion so that he was correctly positioned. The panel in the top of the table was removed and they set the false chest into place. ![]() We had to replace everything around John to match the last take, or objects would jump in the cut. We removed the dressing on the table, careful to Polaroid exactly as it was left after the previous setup. It was a bit of a squeeze to get everyone in under the table, around John Hurt’s body and legs. Nick went to work with his team to set it into position under the table, and set up the separate blood lines and pumps. Roger Dicken had prepared the solid baby alien and Nick had fixed it on top of the hydraulic ram. To practice how this would all work, we had set up a separate secluded area off stage for them to try it all out, so the actors were truly unaware of what was going to happen next. Ridley did not want the actors to see the setup, just to experience the horror of the moment the baby alien actually breaks through. Paul Ibbetson then sent all the actors except John Hurt to their dressing rooms, and told them it would be a few hours to set up the next shot. The actors were sufficiently shocked at this, enough for Ridley to move on, feeling he had captured credible reactions. ![]() On the second take the blood pumped into the T-shirt and stained it heavily. In a way this false start helped, as you could see it increased the actors’ anxieties about what was coming, letting their imaginations run wild. The rest was imagination as it hadn’t broken through the material, but it shocked the actors. It looked pretty scary, as if something had broken through the skin. On the first take the blood pump didn’t pump much and the squib caused a popping sound and lifted the T-shirt as a stain of blood spread. I think being nervous and inquisitive they crowded in on Kane. The actors picked up their positions where they left off, surrounding the choking Kane. On cue this let out a stream of blood to stain the T-shirt red as if something terrible was going on in Kane’s chest. Once Ridley had got that scene, Nick Allder hid a blood pipe under Kane’s T-shirt and a squib with a blood pack.
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