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Veronica Cartwright said she had to get inventive in order to hit Weaver because "every time I went to slap Sigourney, she ducked."

Sigourney Weaver got slapped for real in Alien deleted scene: 'I backhanded you'

Veronica Cartwright said she had to get inventive in order to hit Weaver because "every time I went to slap Sigourney, she ducked."

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Veronica Cartwright and Sigourney Weaver in a scene from the 1979 movie 'Alien'. Credit:

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Veronica Cartwright is looking back at the time that she had to repeatedly slap Sigourney Weaver as part of a later deleted *Alien* scene. **

The actress, who played Nostromo navigator Lambert, revealed during a recent New York Comic Con reunion panel that she attempted to strike Weaver multiple times during filming, only for her costar to expertly evade her blows. The scene, which appears in the director's cut of the 1979 film, takes place after Weaver's Ripley refuses to break quarantine protocol and let Lambert, Dallas (Tom Skerritt), and a facehugger-inflicted Kane (John Hurt) back onto the Nostromo.**

"And I come in and, of course, I'm so upset," Cartwright recalled of the scene. "It's in the director's cut, but it's not in the main movie — I went to slap Sigourney across the face because she was a bitch for not letting us in. Well, every time I went to slap Sigourney, she ducked."

Sigourney Weaver and Veronica Cartwright at New York Comic Con 2025.

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Weaver remembered the scene a *little* differently. "Oh no," she replied. "I think you got me a couple of good times."**

It got to the point where Weaver was so good at evading Cartwright's blows that the film's director Ridley Scott got involved.

"So, Ridley comes over to me and goes, 'Would you just f---ing get her this time?'" Cartwright said, causing Weaver to open her mouth in shock at Scott's comments. "I said, 'Well, okay.'"

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So, Cartwright had to get inventive to make sure that her next slap hit its target. "So, I go like that," she explained, waving her hand. "You duck and I backhanded you. And you were not a happy camper, but the pro that [Weaver] is, she stuck with it!" **

Weaver, who wasn't aware that the scene had been removed from the theatrical cut, thought the slap was a "perfect" addition to the scene.**

"We did a lot of… not exactly improvisation, but Ridley preferred us not quite know what we were going to do," she added. "He wanted that feeling of just being in such danger that you're not quite thinking clearly and all hell is breaking loose."

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Cartwright also pointed out that such an extreme reaction made sense given that the Nostromo's crew had been working together for so long that tensions had likely built up between them along the way. **

"I mean, as Ridley said, we were truckers in space. That's what we were," she said. "Things were breaking down, and we had to keep getting them fixed. And I thought myself, I was bravest of all saying, 'Let's get out of here!' But *nobody* listened to me!"

Sigourney Weaver on the set of 'Alien'.

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Earlier in the panel, Weaver confirmed that she has "had a meeting" with Disney about reprising her role as Ripley in a future* Alien *installment. She also voiced her excitement over a script written by original film producer, Walter Hill.

"What Walter has written is so… first of all, seems so true to me," Weaver said at the time. "It's very much about the society that would incarcerate someone who has tried to help mankind, but she's a problem to them, so she's tucked away."

She added, "I'm thinking about working with Walter to see what the rest of the story would be. It would not be running around air shafts. It would be a very different kind of *Alien* with a really good script. Scary."**

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