Archie Renaux Dishes on Comic-Con Experience and Love for The 'Alien: Romulus' Fans | THR Video - video Dailymotion

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Archie Renaux talks about how becoming part of the 'Alien' franchise has been a life-changing experience, how he loved the fans Comic-Con and how it's a pop-culture full circle moment with his Dad.

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00:00I heard you shot the whole film in chronological order. How did that affect your acting process?

00:06It really made the work a lot easier for us

00:10knowing where we'd come from and where we're going and what the plan is and having

00:16Kind of all those emotional beats like sort of play out in real time as well

00:22Makes it makes a real difference. So and of course when

00:26Someone dies is an alien film, right? So people people do die

00:30You you know, you are saying goodbye to a certain cast member and that is the kind of end of the road for them in

00:36The film so it is there is genuine genuine sadness when that sort of thing happens, which is great

00:40You know see in the performance then

00:43The trailer for the film is super intense. How intense was this shoot for you? It was very intense

00:49It was very very very intense. It was certainly one of those ones

00:53Where sort of towards the end it was kind of felt like a bit like a slug because it had been

00:58As the film kind of progresses

01:01It gets more and more intense

01:03Anyways, so you're you know, you're kind of in this heightened state of emotion for a long time, which is

01:09very very tiring

01:11But as soon as it wrapped then you're in that thing of like, oh that was amazing

01:14That was the best thing ever and I miss it

01:17But yeah, it was an amazing experience

01:20You shot the film then you were promoting it at comic-con and you're on the press tour for it now

01:24What has it been like stepping into the alien franchise?

01:27It's been great

01:30Comic-con was

01:32Yeah, really something we were on Hall H which I got told was a really big deal and there were

01:39Like six and a half thousand fans alien fans all they're like really excited and you know, they're really looking forward to the film

01:46But yeah, it does feel just amazing to be a part of this legacy now, you know these films

01:52first of all alien

01:551979 and now we're in 2024, you know, that's long before I was even born. I was born in 97

02:00So, you know these films mean a lot to my my parents my dad. My dad's a big fan of the film. So

02:07You know, it's very proud for him and all my family that we get to be a part of this legacy

02:11And how do you think this movie compares to the other alien films we've seen before I

02:15Think it's definitely like a love letter to

02:20alien and aliens

02:22There's there's definitely be some nostalgia in there for some fans of those original films

02:27You really do kind of get transported back

02:30To that sort of time even with the clothes and the way that the ships are built and the sort of design language there

02:36But it is its own its own kind of thing

02:38But it is its own its own kind of thing it's just it's a younger cast or on this kind of mission now

02:45So yeah, there's a few little surprises few jump scares. Yeah

Archie Renaux Dishes on Comic-Con Experience and Love for The 'Alien: Romulus' Fans | THR Video

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