"It's not a prequel to 'Alien' like they're saying. It has threads relating to that, but it's a whole different world. It's a slow-burner of a thriller, and we all had a blast doing it. It was an absolute joy working with Ridley. I kept pinching myself on set. And it's great because if critics say, 'Fassbender is very wooden in it,' it won't matter as I'm a robot."

"I kind of went my own way, really. I didn't watch the [Alien] films. When I found out I was doing it, I didn't revisit them. I watched Blade Runner, but I didn't watch the Alien films. Of course, you know, they're in there. I can remember them from when I've seen the films before, but I sort of went a different way. Greg Louganis* was my first inspiration. I figured that I'd sort of base my physicality roughly around him, and then it kind of went from there."

* Gregory "Greg" Efthimios Louganis is an American Olympic diver and author.
He received the James E. Sullivan Award from the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) in 1984 as the most outstanding amateur athlete in the United States.


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