The 24-year-old actor — who plays one of the show’s two adult Xenomorphs — had to film a fight scene with the CGI-generated creature, but he wasn’t left completely in the dark. The Alien: Earth prosthetics crew had sculpted a realistic prop version of t. ocellus, which served as a stand-in during scenes that required actors to react to its presence. “Everything that you see as CGI is actually built practically first,” lead prosthetics designer Steve Painter explains.
Alien: Earth cast & crew talk art, eyeball aliens, and ‘the ghost of Giger’
