While appearing at the Venice Film Festival, Sigourney Weaver became emotional after a reporter compared her character Ripley to Kamala Harris.
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During the film festival, a reporter compared Ripley, the female protagonist from the Aliens franchise to Harris. Weaver responded, "We’re all so excited about Kamala and to think for one moment that my work would have anything to do with her rise makes me very happy, actually, because it’s true. I have so many women who come and thank me."
The actress also took the time to credit writers David Giler and Walter Hill with creating such a strong female character:
"My character was a person, not a woman. They are two of the very few writers who can write a script as just a person. You don’t see her having to be girly or womanly or any of these other ideas, which are all great but women can be everything. I got to play what I realize now was an every-person part. She is all of us. She is what you become when you have to find the ingenuity and don’t even have the time to be brave. Women all over the world are at the frontline."