Sydney Chandler: “I tried to inspire me with the feeling of Ripley and Sigourney Weaver”

The 29 -year -old actress, star in the making, tells us how the first films in the Alien saga influenced her score in the Alien series: Earth.

Sydney Chandler was not born when Alien was released in the cinema in 1979. She had not even pushed her first cry when the rest of James Cameron or the third opus of David Fincher. And yet, the horrific franchise marked the childhood of the young heroine ofAlien : Earth.

His father is none other than the actor Kyle ChandlerStar de Tomorrow at the front page Then Friday Night Lightstwice awarded the Emmy Awards and recently crossed in the saga Godzilla in the cinema. It was he who introduced her to the joys of the xenomorphs when she was just a little girl. “I was surely too young”confides Chandler at first. “Besides, this is the kind of story that we really only integrate by aging: this vision of the future and technology is very anchored in reality, and without a certain maturity, we do not understand everything.”

Sydney Chandler could still rave in front of the prowess of Sigourney Weaverlegendary Ripley imagined by Ridley Scott. A heroine who revolutionized the acting profession and whose performance has inspired her character in Alien : Earth. “I am a big fan of the original film. So I hung on to the very essence of this character”explains the star in the making, who specifies that she does not have “Look at recreating or copying anything.” However, she admits:

“Sigourney Weaver has influenced me since my childhood, because I saw Ripley in action so much, again and again. Now, I have been careful not to reply what she had done at the time. Besides, it is not at all the same kind of character: I play a hybrid, not a human. And then it would be too intimidating to compare myself to an actress like Sigourney Weaver. To be inspired by the feeling of Ripley, his bravery, to compose my character. “

It must be said that Sydney Chandler It is not in its first role. Born in Texas, she made her weapons in the “Austin” version of Shame (Yes it exists), playing a young homosexual woman. She then learned to sing and play the guitar to give life to the American singer Chrissie Hynde (from the group The Pretenders) in the Rock’n’Roll series Pistolsigned Danny Boylebefore being the missing tracked by Colin Farrell in the series Sugar d’Apple TV Plus.

Sydney Chandler is certainly on the way to becoming one of the new Hollywood stars, capable of alternating specific mainstream projects like Alien : Earth and more eccentric works like Animafirst feature by the American-Japanese artist Brian Tetsuro Iviethat she filmed this summer … before embarking on season 2.

Alien: Earth, season 1 in 8 episodes, broadcast on Disney more from August 13 to September 23, 2025.