This interview contains spoilers for Alien: Earth episode 6.

If you want to better understand the characters of Alien: Earth , study their body language. Watch how they move. In a show in which androids belly-laugh and slouch their shoulders like children (because they are), and acid-spewing Xenomorphs creep like killers in a dark alley, the physicality of characters tells their story. This even includes Prodigy scientist Dame Sylvia, played by Australian actress Essie Davis.

Zooming from her home in Tasmania, Davis tells me that Dame Sylvia is the most "normal" character in all of Alien: Earth . Surrounded by hybrids and cyborgs and eerie entities, a scientist with her hands tucked in her lab coat's pockets feels oddly unique. "That's why she's one of my favorite characters," D

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