Sigourney Weaver Explains Why She Stood up to Legendary Director 

Veteran Hollywood star Sigourney Weaver has revealed how she once pushed back against the highly successful director James Cameron as she stood up for a younger performer. The actress explained that she confronted the filmmaker as she felt that all actors should stick up for each other.

Sigourney Weaver Confronted James Cameron in Defense of A Fellow Member of the Cast 

During an interview with the New York Times, Weaver recalled the time she stood up to Cameron while they filmed the 1986 sequel “Aliens.” 

This marked the first time the pair had worked together, with Weaver previously playing her character Ripley in “Alien” under the stewardship of Ridley Scott. The director was new to the franchise and understandably wanted to make his own mark. However, this occasionally led to animosity on set.

In one encounter, Cameron lost his temper with a younger actress who was struggling to perform with the film’s props, promoting Weaver to come to her defense.

She said, “I sort of trundled up to him and I said, ‘You know, when you yell at an actor, you yell at all of us, so understand that what she was doing actually was very hard. Maybe shoot something else while she gets used to doing this stuff the way you want it.”

To his credit, the filmmaker heeded the advice and the pair didn’t come to blows. In fact, Weaver saw a softer side to him after the shoot finished and became more friendly towards each other. “He’s a good guy. I really do think Jim has mellowed,” she explained.

“He hadn’t been like that directing. He was wildly funny, witty. I can understand why that guy couldn’t come out during ‘Aliens,’ because that was a tough shoot, especially for him. Let’s put it this way: I’m glad I wasn’t shooting ‘The Abyss’ with him.”

James Cameron Praises Sigourney Weaver for ‘Avatar’ Performance

Ahead of the release of Cameron’s upcoming film “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” the director showed how close the pair have become as he praised her performance in portraying such a young character at her age.

“She was 70 and 71 across that period where she was capturing Kiri,” Cameron explained. “I mean, she can capture Kiri tomorrow. Nothing’s changed. She’s a little bit older now, but she just came in a different person. She came in lighter and more open. I mean, she literally looked like she had gotten younger.”

He continued saying that Weaver’s performance as a teenage character was “maybe one of the biggest acting challenges of her career.”

Cameron elaborated, “Because in her mind, she had taken herself back to her 14, 15-year-old self. And by the way, it wasn’t all fun and light. It was the darkness of an anxious teenager.”

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