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    Who Were The People Inside Famous Movie Alien Costumes?

    A complete unknown who was plucked from his graphic arts studies by Ridley Scott to play the original Alien in 1979 (Peter Mayhew aka Chewbacca also auditioned), Badejo was a 26-year-old Nigerian who met his agent in a London pub and was immediately put up to play the titular xenomorph due to his thin frame. Standing 6′10″, Badejo studied mime in preparation for the role, but in the end a lot of the scenes Scott wanted him to do weren’t possible either practically or physically thanks to the re