Aileen Wu '22 (BFA, Drama) is the star of the recently released Alien: Romulus, the seventh chapter in the Alien anthology. Wu spoke with Variety in an interview discussing how she got involved with the project and her experience filming the iconic horror film.
"How did you land this role?
This is my first-ever feature. I got a self-tape request, as most actors do, I taped for it and then two days later I got a callback. Two days after that I was sent the full script, and then two days after that I was on a call with Fede and he was already in Budapest. During the call, I felt like he was trying to psych me out: “You know, you’re going to be covered in blood. You’re going to be sitting in this hole for eight hours. You can’t get out. You’re going to have this creature sitting on your face for a long time. You can’t get claustrophobic, are you claustrophobic?” I’m like, “No, I’m not claustrophobic.” I used to have a big claustrophobia problem back in high school. The next morning, my agent got the call from the studio and that’s when I got the official offer. Two days after that, I was on a plane to Budapest. It happened super fast, and I didn’t know what was going on until we had already started filming."