Following the release of Alien: Earth’s sixth episode, “The Fly,” actor Kit Young who portrayed the science ambitious hybrid Isaac/Tootles spoke to Collider about his work on Noah Hawley’s series, working with director Ugla Hauksdóttir, the fate of his character and filming the lab scene in the sixth episode. Spoilers follow. Discussing when he knew the fate of his character, Young explained that:

I knew from the get-go. I knew from the beginning. I don’t think I got to read all the episodes immediately. I just got to initially read the first two. But I knew that it was happening, and I knew it was going to be quite tragic and quite gruesome. I don’t think I knew which creature it was going to be — obviously, we have the creatures that we know from the Alien franchise, but Noah [Hawley] was creating whole new threats.

But it was quite early on. It was definitely before we started filming because everybody’s beginning to know each other before we started shooting, and hopefully we’ll start to get along and like each other. People were like, “Oh no, it’s gonna be sad when you go.” And then they were kind of all a little bit in denial about the fact that I would go. I was like, “No, guys, it’s gonna happen. Maybe not this week, but as the weeks go on, we’ll get there.”

So yeah, I did know, and then it became a thing to kind of psych up towards, because it was really important — it’s a really well-constructed scene. I wanted to do it justice, because that scene really makes the whole character make sense. I really didn’t want to drop the ball with that one. The director of the episode, Ugla [Hauksdóttir], [I] had such a great time working with her and the whole team. They made it look great.

[Spoilers] Kit Young Talks Filming Alien: Earth's "The Fly" Lab Scene

When asked about filming Isaac’s death, Young talked about his claustrophobic experience having his face cast taken, as well as the mixture of practical and digital methods used to bring the episode’s standout creature sequence to life. Talking more specifically about the creatures, Young elaborated that:

Most of it was there. The orchid is there in the tank, the sheep is there. Some shots, it was the real sheep, some shots, it was an animatronic one that would also move, so you imagine very little. The nest was there, and then there was a point where someone had a fly on a stick, and they’d scuttle it across the top of the roof, which is silly because it’s not actually completely the exact design that you see in the finished product. There’s a guy in shorts with a back-to-front cap in the room with you, so you’re like, “Don’t look at Steve.” When we actually did the gag for the acid, I was wearing almost this green screen gauntlet that had this tube on the end, which made me look hilarious and silly.

That bit, the most intense bit, required a bit of actor’s imagination, but testament to the team, there was so much that was really there. It’s also hard to stay in focus because in the next tank over, there are the very famous Alien eggs, and they’ve actually got smoke coming out of them and all this kind of stuff, so I’m getting distracted as a fan, and then being like, “No, no, no, pay attention and play Isaac.” It was really just the fly in that sequence that wasn’t quite what we see, but most of it is what it is. It was truly tremendous. They just pulled it off.

Be sure to head on over to Collider to read the entire interview.

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