It’s one thing to be hired to portray a new lifeform. It’s quite another to play it.

“In my head, I think I’ve created the rules: ‘This is who I am,’” says actress Sydney Chandler. “And then you get to (the) set and it’s all different. Everything changes. You realize your job is to show up and be as open and free and present as possible and roll with whatever anyone else is throwing your way.”

That’s the world of “Alien: Earth,” an eight-part series that expands what Ridley Scott created with the film, “Alien,” some 46 years ago.

In it, Chandler plays a humanoid robot with human consciousness, two years before the events of “Alien.” She’s an advancement in the race for immortality and part of a group who discovers mysterious life forms that could be threatening.

Humans, cyborgs and syn

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