{"id":67178,"date":"2025-08-13T19:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67178\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T19:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:07:09","slug":"earth-star-alex-lawther-on-that-very-sci-fi-sibling-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67178\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth’ Star Alex Lawther on That Very Sci-Fi Sibling Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alien: Earth<\/a> has finally arrived, bringing weekly doses of Ridley Scott\u2019s world of Alien<\/a>\u2014filtered through the creative lens of Noah Hawley\u2014to sci-fi fans. The first two episodes (read io9\u2019s recap here<\/a>) had to spend a bit of time doing necessary setup, introducing the characters and how they fit into the story that\u2019ll unfold. So far one of the most unique relationships is the one between Joe, aka Hermit (Alex Lawther) and Wendy (Sydney Chandler), formerly Marcy. They\u2019re siblings, with a twist.<\/p>\n

\"Io9spoiler\"<\/p>\n

As the episodes explore, Marcy (a very sick child) becomes Wendy (a synthetic body with a human consciousness), but her soldier brother, Hermit, isn\u2019t aware that\u2019s happened. When the two meet\u2014amid a lot of alien-adjacent chaos, naturally\u2014he has to grapple with the revelation that not only is his sister still alive, but she\u2019s also become a hybrid person.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a lot to take in, and speaking to Collider<\/a>, Lawther\u2014who Star Wars fans will recognize from Andor\u2014described how he approached all those emotions in his performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a moment of horror, I kept on thinking \u2026 This person who you thought you\u2019d lost has been found. There\u2019s a deeply unsettling uncanniness to that. And I think for the first takes of it, I was just sort of like\u2014and [episode two director Dana Gonzalez] was like, \u2018Maybe turn it down,\u2019 because I just felt sort of freaked out by the whole situation,\u201d Lawther said. \u201cI found it more viscerally frightening than being faced with the Xenomorph, was being faced by a dead sibling come back to life. She\u2019s essentially a ghost to him, and also, she\u2019s in this other body. Can you imagine? Like a zombie, this other body opening its mouth and saying, \u2018Hey, man, it\u2019s me. I\u2019m your dead sister. I\u2019m alive, but I\u2019m in a different body.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Much like the film franchise that spawned it, not all the horror in Alien: Earth will involve aliens, it seems. However, if you\u2019ve seen the first two episodes, you know there\u2019s also plenty of oozy extraterrestrial terror on the show too. Have you checked it out yet?<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alien: Earth has finally arrived, bringing weekly doses of Ridley Scott\u2019s world of Alien\u2014filtered through the creative lens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[30623,49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-67178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-alien-earth","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}