The Man Behind the Alien Mask

The Man Behind the Alien Mask

“As soon as I walked in, Ridley Scott knew he’d found the right person.” Bolaji Badejo was a six-foot-10-inch Nigerian graphic-design student in London until a chance pub encounter made him Ridley Scott’s most elegant monster By Tom Fordy The original Alien Xenomorph was discovered not in a glowing egg on a faraway planet or scuttling around a gloopy nest, but down the pub. That’s where Peter Archer, one of the film’s casting directors, first cl…