Normally, if your boss asked you to tear a body in half for work, you'd run for the hills (and also to HR). But for Steve Painter, Alien: Earth 's lead prosthetics supervisor and designer, ripping fake bodies in half at a moment's notice was all part of a day's work.

In an interview with Mashable over Zoom, Painter recalled tearing apart one body in particular: that of Maginot engineer Shmuel (Michael Smiley). The corpse appears briefly in scenes where Prodigy soldiers and the Lost Boy hybrids explore the wreckage. Originally, it lay whole on the ground. However, when Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley requested that Shmuel be torn apart and his halves scattered across the room, Painter and his team jumped into action.

"I just ripped his body in half," Painter told Mashable. "Then

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