Sigourney Weaver Tears Up Over Kamala Harris’s Rise and Empowering Women
At the Venice Film Festival, where she received a lifetime achievement award, Sigourney Weaver was moved to tears when a reporter suggested her empowering film roles, particularly as Ellen Ripley in the ‘Alien’ series, might have paved the way for Kamala Harris to become a presidential contender. Weaver expressed deep emotion at the idea, acknowledging the impact her portrayals have had on women, and celebrating how older female characters have evolved from stereotypes to more authentic and respected roles in Hollywood.
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00:00Sigourney Weaver shed a few tears at the Venice Film Festival after a reporter suggested her
00:04empowering roles in film could help Kamala Harris become the first female president.
00:10Sigourney Weaver is one of Hollywood's biggest stars and hardly needs an introduction.
00:14She's most well-known for her roles in Avatar, Holes, and, of course, Ellen Ripley in the
00:19Alien film series.
00:21With the next installment of the franchise, Alien Romulus, in theaters now, despite not
00:25having Weaver in it, fans of the actor can't help but reflect on one of her most iconic
00:30roles.
00:31Weaver recently attended a press conference at the Venice Film Festival, as this year
00:35she's receiving the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award.
00:39During the conference, a reporter suggested that Weaver's work representing women in
00:43powerful roles in film, specifically Alien, could have helped make it possible for Kamala
00:48Harris to earn the presidential nomination and maybe even win the race.
00:52After this, Weaver responded emotionally, sharing,
00:55"'To think for one moment that my work would have anything to do with her rise makes
00:59me happy, actually.
01:00Because it's true.
01:01I have so many women who come and thank me.'
01:04Suddenly, I think they had decided somehow that older women could actually play interesting
01:08characters and started writing a lot of older women characters.
01:12Suddenly, we stopped being a joke and a mother-in-law and we started to be real people because actually
01:16a lot of our audience are real people."