Aileen Wu is on the heart of what could be described as one of many most traumatic and gnarliest scenes in Alien: Romulus – and the Alien franchise as an entire – however her character, Navarro, can be closely featured in one of many 2024 film’s most touching, albeit shortest moments.
Forward of Alien: Romulus making its Hulu streaming debut in November 2024, Wu sat down with us to speak about one of many greatest horror films of the 12 months. Throughout that chat, the dialog turned to a scene early within the film the place Navarro is peacefully standing in daylight as she checks on some Weyland-Yutani cryo-pods. Her reply has us seeing the character, and the scene, in an entire new gentle:
Navarro herself grew up along with her actual organic mom who needed to depart her when she was little or no. And Navarro doesn’t know the place she is, doesn’t know if she’s alive, however I feel her mom handed right down to her all these little traits that we see throughout the movie – her mom tongue, the language that she speaks, the ring she has, and her religion to one thing better, if we wanna put it in a non secular method.
Whereas it’s simple to select up on the characters’ motivations for leaving the death-trap mines on on the Jackson’s Star colony, and it’s clear that the core solid is extra like a tight-knit household than a gaggle of buddies, this facet of Navarro was by no means made solely clear simply by watching the film.
Wu, who revealed that she and the opposite members of the solid and crew have been continuously bettering on set and developing with completely different backstories, defined that she noticed Navarro’s ill-fated journey out into area as not solely an opportunity to assist her buddies discover a higher life for themselves, but in addition one to search out her mom:
So I feel Navarro could be very very similar to, ‘I’ll do that for you guys,’ however I feel secretly for herself and her coronary heart, this can be a likelihood to go hunt down her mom once more and discover one thing that connects her by means of her blood, by means of her DNA.
However the private contact doesn’t finish there. Earlier within the chat, Wu instructed us that the scene of her blissfully staring into the daylight and an opportunity at a greater tomorrow was the very last thing she filmed on her final day on set. She would go on so as to add that this explicit second was one thing that she and director Fede Álvarez mentioned quite a bit that day.
For his half, Álvarez beforehand opened to us concerning the “perverse train” of creating us love his characters, so this all utterly checks out.
When you missed Alien: Romulus on the large display screen throughout its massively profitable field workplace run over the summer season, you’ll be able to watch it streaming with a Hulu subscription or by buying a digital copy from on-line retailers. It should even be accessible on 4K, Blu-Ray and VHS (sure, you learn that appropriately) on December 3, 2024.