The alien creatures in Prometheus might arguably steal the show, but whether they're antagonist, host or just plain meat, the human cast is equally important. We sat down with stars Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Guy Pearce and Logan Marshall-Green after the Prometheus world premiere to talk post-curtain rumors and working in the shadow of Ripley.

[Question] My question is about hypersleep. You played people waking up from this hypersleep state – which we don't actually have. At that point in your performance, what were you doing; what was happening to you, how were you feeling, and what had you woken up from?

Noomi: I actually did a detox, I put myself on some kind of detox thing for a week before. I was only drinking...

Michael: Logan's like, "you didn't tell me that, we were supposed to share everything!"

Logan: I ate, like, a pizza the night before.

Noomi: We were just drinking different things for a week. I wanted to kind of drain my body and clean it, because I know before we went in David has been taking care of us, and changing our diapers and washing us probably, y'know, for two years.

Michael: [Shakes head, grinning]

Noomi: No? What did you do?

Michael: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, "looked after you."

Guy: In a very special kind of way...

Michael: Very special!

Noomi: I wanted to kind of drain my body a kind of bit, I dunno, I had this idea I was gonna look very... everything was going to sink in [gestures to face], but it didn't really happen. But it's hard to imagine, what it is to be sleeping for two years, but we talked about trying to... how groggy are we, how aware are we about what's around us? And when you try different things, yelling "we're here!", "am I awake?" It's kind of difficult, we tried it in different versions with Ridley.

Logan: Yeah, Ridley said it was that... we were intaking proteins and such instantly, you're cold, I ended up drinking a quart of milk over the course of a few minutes. And you were throwing it up, lemonade wasn't it?

Noomi: I was.

Logan: Milk doesn't bother you.

Noomi: No, that was something really disgusting they gave me, remember – the kind of fluid?

Guy: Not milk of magnesia?

Q: Over the course of the production there was so much secrecy around this. All the speculation happens, there are all these rumors which start getting thrown around online. I would imagine you were probably aware of some of them, probably laughing at some of them. Are there any favorites that stick out in your mind?

Michael: We were trying to create them. The ones we invented were really...

Noomi: He was working really hard, to make this...

Michael: A love story! There is a love story.

Noomi: Between a robot, and...
"There is a love story, between the robot David and Doctor Shaw."

Michael: There is a love story, between the robot David and Doctor Shaw, which will be through the next installment.

Noomi: The very misleading rumors! Never gonna happen!

Mihael: The child's gonna be half-child, half-robot.

Guy: Has your head been reattached? Or is it just...?

Michael: We're not sure.

Noomi: It's based on a true story. And actually, I heard a while, "so are you Ripley's mother?" That was one thing people were asking me, and I was like "I'm not sure." And this thing that nobody dies in the movie! Logan started that.

Logan: Yeah, I had this reporter going for a while, that nobody dies. They weren't sure of it after that, they called back and said "I want to make sure, nobody dies?"

Noomi: Really disappointed: a Ridley Scott movie and nobody dies?!

Logan: A big first!

Q: Michael, did you relate to Data from Star Trek, playing David?

Michael: I guess... he wasn't one of the ones that I was thinking of when I was putting it together, but you're the second person that asked so obviously there's something of him in there. He was probably in and around the ether somewhere: all robots came out to play!

Guy: Some plagiarism in there.

Michael: Absolutely! Stealing left, right and center. But no, it was kind of David Bowie – The Man Who Fell To Earth – Sean Young – Blade Runner – Lawrence of Arabia of course, Peter O’Toole, and Dirk Bogarde, and Greg Louganis. That kind of combo, put all those things together and David came out of that.


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