She was Lt. Ellen Ripley in the first four Aliens saga films and Dana Barrett in the first two Ghostbusters before rejoining James Cameron more than twenty years after Aliens Returns to play Dr. Grace Augustine in Avatar.
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But in a nearly fifty-year career, since her first appearance in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall in 1977 and in almost sixty feature films, Sigourney Weaver’s filmography is certainly not limited to these three iconic sagas.
You can really discover the life and journey of this actress in the documentary Sigourney Weaver: Heroine of Style, available on arte.tv. The fascinating portrait aired on Arte last night after Mike Nichols’ Working Girl, in which he stars opposite Melanie Griffith and Harrison Ford, here are a few filming secrets before launching into our quiz of the day.
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Head in the fog
When Sigourney Weaver, aka Catherine Parker, returns from New York, she descends from a helicopter loaded with a large gorilla, reminiscent of her interpretation of Dian Foss in Gorillas in the Mist a few months earlier in 1988.
The idea of the movie
It was Kevin Wade and Douglas Wick who offered Mike Nichols the script for the film, the idea of which they got from observing Manhattan office workers at work.
Second collaboration between Weaver and Nichols
Sigourney Weaver was already directed by Mike Nichols on stage at Harliberley.
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