John Hurt: Alien scene mythbuster

[BlotRorschach]

Veronica's performance may be thankless to some, but it's perfectly and utterly essential in its realism. Props to John for giving due credit.

[petruslove]

I was fortunate enough too meet him when he was at the Premier party of the film “ Dune “ in the early eighties, I was a young chef attending the Open Buffet at George Bests club Blondes in Mayfair, John Hurt puffing on a Gallois Cigarette, asked me so beautifully and politely in his eloquent voice “ Chef do you think you could bring me a selection from your wonderful buffet on a plate, I’ve hurt my back and I don’t think I could face standing, my goodness he was so wonderful in his way of asking and of course I did it gladly, what a gentleman, I’ve never forgotten that, how too treat a fellow human being with respect and humility.

[neonatalpenguin]

John Hurt is everything an actor should be.

[billmorris]

Absolute genius....God bless him. His portrayal of John Merrick is one of the best performances ever!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉. RIP John. 🙏

[thewalrus]

One of the best actors I've ever seen, consistently brilliant.

[raindrops_]

Dear John. What a marvellous actor he was. Just exceptional. Maybe prizes are silly and no true indication of talent, but I always wished he'd won an Oscar, he gave so many stellar performances throughout his career.

[markpaterson]

I think at the end he's talking about the slap Veronica gave Sigourney without her knowing it was about to happen; it wound up deleted from the movie, until today, and you can see the genuine shock on Sigourney's face after the slap---then you see her boss mode as she runs with it and says something to keep the scene going flawlessly.

[MarkArandjus]

I could listen to John Hurt's voice like music ♥

[gpeddino]

Damn, I watched this yesterday. RIP John Hurt.

[thedarksaviour]

RIP John Hurt. Fascinating actor and his performances both live action and animated made me want to act!

[kirkhunter]

I loved John Hurt in every thing he did, it was his vocal delivery & timing, so believable and committed but so John.

[RaikenXion]

Hes a legend, the way he played that scene, so realistic, he made that scene wot it is, it wud hav never worked without that extraordinary realistic performance he gave. Some great acting. I just want to say the greatest actors in films r English sorry that is my opinion lol.

[gerardmackay]

My favourite (of the many) John Hurt stories comes from the set of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. He turned up early and rented a simple house in Kefallinia so he could observe the old guys socialising in the cafe/bars and observe their mannerisms and feel himself absorbed into the life of an older Greek islander. Nicholas Cage rocked up with private plane, limo and entourage and on meeting Hurt said that they had a couple of important scenes and thought they should schedule some time together ahead of rehearsal. Hurt was impressed with Cage’s professionalism but was then rather bemused when Cage said ‘ If your people get in touch with my people we can get some times organised’ Hurt had to say to him ‘But my dear boy I don’t have ‘people’ 😂

[manfromthehorizon]

His performance in "Watership Down" nearly killed me.

[Neil]

I first saw Alien as a kid, scared the life out of me, John Hurt was a fantastic actor, so many great roles, love Watership Down too, sadly no longer with us.

[AmusedChild]

The scene that Hurt describes with the alien not poking through is available on the 2-DVD set in the production documentary - you can see the rushes. What really impressed me was his concentration, staying in character while people were yelling, "We can't see it yet! It hasn't poked through yet!" etc. The whole cast was really professional.

[steveoh]

One of the best actors of all time, RIP sir.

[rado]

Who could ever forget John Hurt’s performance in Scandal.

[zantigar]

Oh, I MISS John Hurt - he was fantastic and beautiful!

[dianalee]

One of drama’s greatest. I absolutely sobbed in Elephant Man