Sydney Chandler: “I tried to inspire me with the feeling of Ripley and Sigourney Weaver”
The 29 -year -old actress, star in the making, tells us how the first films in the Alien saga influenced her score in the Alien series: Earth.
Sydney Chandler was not born when Alien was released in the cinema in 1979. She had not even pushed her first cry when James Cameron’s sequel or David Fincher’s third opus arrived. And yet, the horrific franchise marked the childhood of the young heroine of Alien: Earth.
His father is none other than actor Kyle Chandler, a star of tomorrow at the front page then Friday Night Lights, twice awarded at Emmy Awards and recently crossed in the Godzilla saga in the cinema. It was he who introduced her to the joys of the xenomorphs when she was just a little girl. “I was surely too young,” said Chandler at first. “Besides, this is the kind of story that we really only integrate by aging: this vision of the future and technology is very anchored in reality, and without a certain maturity, we do not understand everything.”
Sydney Chandler could still rave about the prowess of Sigourney Weaver, legendary Ripley imagined by Ridley Scott. A heroine who revolutionized the acting profession and whose performance inspired her character in Alien: Earth. “I am a big fan of the original film. So I hung on to the very essence of this character,” explains the star in the making, who specifies that she did not “try to recreate or copy anything.” However, she admits:
“Sigourney Weaver has influenced me since my childhood, because I saw Ripley in action so much, again and again. Now, I have been careful not to reply what she had done at the time. Besides, it is not at all the same kind of character: I play a hybrid, not a human. And then it would be too intimidating to compare myself to an actress like Sigourney Weaver. To be inspired by the feeling of Ripley, his bravery, to compose my character. “
It must be said that Sydney Chandler is not in her first role and the “daughter of” is making a nice first name.
Born in Texas, she made her weapons in the “Austin” version of Skam (yes it exists), playing a young homosexual woman. She then learned to sing and play the guitar to give life to the American singer Chrissie Hynde (from the group The Pretrenders) in the Rock’n’Roll Pistol series, signed Danny Boyle, before being the missing by Colin Farrell in the Sugar series of Apple TV Plus.
Sydney Chandler is certainly on the verge of becoming one of the new Hollywood stars, capable of alternating mainstream-pointed projects like Alien: Earth and more eccentric works like Anima, the first feature by the American-Japan artist Brian Tetsuro Ivie, which she filmed this summer … Before embarking on season 2.
Alien: Earth, season 1 in 8 episodes, broadcast on Disney more from August 13 to September 23, 2025.
