Sigourney Weaver Has an Optimistic Take on the Future of 'Star Wars'

Sigourney Weaver Has an Optimistic Take on the Future of 'Star Wars'

The 'Aliens' and 'Avatar' star joins 'Star Wars' in 2026's 'The Mandalorian and Grogu.'

Sigourney Weaver talks science fiction, her Avatar journey, and testing her limits

Sigourney Weaver set cinema screens alight 46 years ago as Alien’s warrant officer Ripley: Jonesy the (“little shithead”) cat in one hand, a flamethrower in the other. An exquisite visual summation of this new, radical female sci-fi action character, and the soon-to-be-star playing her. A six-foot, New York born-and- bred, Off-Broadway actor who, it was opined, would never make it in Hollywood. And, well, if you measure her career against some t…