Tom Skerritt "Alien" 1979 - Bobbie Wygant Archive

[@joycegibbs5267]

great film and great actor. He's always so real and man, he ages so well !!!

[@dougie1968]

The movies centre around Ripley, but at the start of it all Captain Dallas was there calling the shots.

[@c.m.l.184]

Unforgettable captain Dallas.

[@hak4890]

Gorgeous man. And that voice…

[@ladyweasellou3367]

Oh thankgod..... I'm not the only one! 😂 I'm 33 and just feel in love with Tom Skerritt as a teenager but NOBODY of my generation had a clue who I meant. My husband is 21 years older than me and thinks it's absolutely hilarious this is my favorite actor (he jokingly tells people "She just likes geriatric men" lol)

[@hak4890]

@@ladyweasellou3367 I watched Alien many times during the Pandemic. That is when I developed a crush on him. If you watch the KZbin videos “Reactions watching Alien (1979) the first time”, you will see that there are viewers that agree with us.👍

[@anthonya.antonio]

@@ladyweasellou3367 Yeah, but he's almost 90 now.

[@MrJackal43]

Who was this unremarkable, unknown, bizarre and not attractive woman? So weird that she was chosen to interview icons! 😂

[@hak4890]

@@MrJackal43 Bobbie Wygant (born Roberta Connolly;[1] November 22, 1926) is an American television news reporter, film critic, talk show host, and interviewer who has worked for Fort Worth, Texas television station KXAS-TV (originally known as WBAP-TV) for over 70 years. She is known for her filmed interviews with celebrities.

[@karencox1710]

Love this man!

[@jonathanthomas4722]

Tom Skerritt is a legend. Love this guy! Go Tigers! Thank you for sharing Bobbie- some great interviews!

[@williamheckman4597]

Really Alien and Bladerunner were groundbreaking films... Hard to appreciate how epic they were in my youth, but after so many terrible films have been made since, you really realize how great of a filmmaker Ridley Scott actually is. I wish films these days were made with the same passion AND skill, but here we are

[@dobi287]

Interesting seeing how these interviews were done

[@GaryDuncanson-s4g]

The best actor in the film by miles and a great captain. Keep well tom x

[@sonnyroy497]

Really scary intense movie.

[@zerpblerd5966]

one of the best horror and scariest movies ever!

[@hak4890]

Totally agree. I love everything about it.

[@cynthiaennis3107]

I was a girl when I saw Ice castles & now I don’t remember him in it. He is sooo young here! Wow! Gorgeous & just as nice!

[@KyloRen4238]

Tom Sketritt Movies & Game 1. Captain Dallas - Alien, Alien Isolation 1979 - 2014 2. Tom Skerritt - Ted 2012

[@usmanqudrat2500]

Damn, that poster looks like it literally got time-warped to 1979

[@agfagaevart]

worth big bucks now!

[@jasoncary7957]

07:13

[@chrisadams8182]

“Look, I just run the ship!”

[@thomaswatvedt5812]

Great performance as Dallas, the best character of the movie imo

[@carl_anderson9315]

The original poster of the egg has always being perfect.

[@williamheckman4597]

Wasn't it though? They could have easily given away everything... The poster teases your brain... Just enough... Ridley learned from Jaws and Star Wars (and others)... you can tell... His slow camera pacing and "throw the audience" into the world without explanation made the films THAT much more real, even by todays standards...

[@maulcs]

Except for that weird bone net thing at the bottom.

[@KyloRen4238]

Happy Birthday Tom Skerritt. UR awesome legend. I love Ted. Its hilarious. And I love Alien and Alien Isolation. Awesome movie and game. I seen all 6 of them. Prometheus 1, Alien 2 Covenant, Alien 3, Aliens 4, Alien 3 5, and Alien 6 Resurrection. I guess it. Still, its true. Also, Sigourney Weaver remind me of my mother. Seriously, she does look similar to her. The hair. Alien is a good horror movie. "In space no one can hear u scream." Alien reminds me of "Dead Space DownFall", "Dead Space Aftermath" and the games. Pretty kool. Full support for u Tom. May the Peace be with u Catpain Dallas. From Harlingen Texas. August 25, 1933 August 25, 2023 through August 25, 3023

[@youtuuba]

I have watched a few of Bobbie Wygant's "Alien" related interviews, and she keeps coming back to, and stressing, the "gore", which she seems to believe the film has an abundance of. When she was interviewing Ridley Scott, he pointed out that the film only has once brief scene with blood in it, therefore only one brief bit of "gore". Bobbie essentially told him that he was wrong about that, and he pointed out that viewers of the film always seem to remember there being more blood in the film than there actually is. It is disappointing for a journalist or interviewer to keep going on with something so incorrect in her perception, and dragging her hapless interviewees through the awkward position of trying to politely correct her.

[@tinytanks]

technically I think there was one more point later in the movie with about three frames of gore that lasted for maybe a 10th of a second, but for the most part ridley was right. I thought her pollyanna-ish naievete charmed the cast into showing their best side and giving some good responses so I enjoyed watching them, but I guess you're right that at least ridley deserved some meatier questions.

[@thegood9]

Agree with you, @youtuuba, as you much more eloquently convey what I was going to write.

[@Alienfanatic]

You have to realize that when this was released, in 1979, there was a great deal less of the violence that we've become accustomed to. The 1970's were definitely a time of an explosion in violence, but even The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which is the template Ridley Scott drew from when deciding how much he wanted to emphasize horror in this picture, is much less violent than you'd expect from a slasher film. Also, the people like Bobbie were the Silent Generation, not even Baby Boomers. They were typically from very religious families and the concept of violence, especially in films, was treated as somewhat immoral. This was a major shift in personal taste, again brought on by the counter-culture period of the 60's followed by the "new wave" of filmmakers in the 70's. I really can't overstate what a shift this was, so to someone like her the Violence--especially the chestburster scene--was shocking. I lived through that time, though i was just a child, but I remember just how focused people were on the gore of the movie. Tame as it may be today, back then it was a source of fascination.

[@Alienfanatic]

@@tinytanks Yes, the parts in which the mature alien used its tongue to incapacitate both Brett and Parker could be considered "gore" though it was really too brief to be considered graphic. The mind tends to fill in for what it doesn't see and, having already seen the chestburster, I'm sure many saw brains "popping out" of the heads of the victims. I know I did.

[@zerpblerd5966]

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[@sahej6939]

Interesting that Ridley Scott was already super well known and famous.

[@Alienfanatic]

Bobbie's parting question was what Tom's next picture would be. She quipped that she hoped it wouldn't be as scary. The funny thing is that his next picture was a forgettable one called, "Savage Harvest" about killer lions. :)

[@liskeke]

"I'm like your 11-year old" was the scariest part

[@nedmerrill6228]

If Alien was filmed today we all know what the Captain would look like.

[@crystalskullsucked]

This movie blew this reviewers mind lol

[@annamaksymienko9317]

Una recitazione perfetta e intensa.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

I'm reading 📚 Dead Poets Society ...and The American, by Andrew Britton ❤

[@anonuser1]

"Do you think there will be a sequel?"

[@thegood9]

She has tried with every actor from Alien to get them to agree with her that Alien was "too gory". And it gets more and more frustrating to her that they won't agree with her.

[@viborgvee8399]

Duuuuude

[@nicolamcguinness8689]

Rip Declan mcaleer 1940 2024

[@clutch2827]

Guys really liked showing off their chest hair back then. She also thought he was Kane lol!

[@wendyhill3856]

That old trout didn’t like the movie did she

[@ladyweasellou3367]

He's trying to be good naturedly fun and amusing but she just keeps ignoring that and is being rather.... Overly serious and dull, dismissive..... lol I typed that before getting to the end of the video, now I know why, they weren't actually speaking to eachother.

[@hak4890]

And, it looks to me, as though he was trying to accommodate her questions, yet trying to keep from revealing too much about the movie.

[@coolseaotter1455]

It’s because it’s shot with one camera. First they film Tom and his answers, then the interviewer. So everything is set, there is no room for improvisation on the interviewing side, or it won’t add up during the montage

[@jedijones]

They were speaking to each other. There are clear shots of them in the same frame.

[@coolseaotter1455]

@@jedijones yes they certainly were, but during the conversation the camera was pointed at Tom. Then after the interview is done and Tom leaves, the camera is pointed at the interviewer, and the questions are filmed. It’s a common technique if you film interviews with a single camera

[@matthewcrome]

God she's the WORST interviewer. She doesn't understand a fucking thing about the movie, based on this interview and all of the other people re:Alien she's interviewed (which include people like Giger and Shushett who you don't typically see as many interviews with). She deadass thought Skerritt played Kane at one point and you could tell he was confused! I do appreciate interviews like these because this was clearly filmed right at its release and you can tell they (mainly Skerritt) a) are trying to avoid spoilers and b) don't understand the cultural impact quite yet. The bit about the "sequel" is fucking gold because I'm like "Man, you have *no* idea..." It's a real time capsule and I think it's great we have that.

[@alexdavies7394]

That was one of the most awkward actor interviews I've ever seen! Not from Tom Skerritt, he came across perfectly okay. But that interviewer! Talk about being disinterested and uninformed.