The Aussie playing the ferocious creature on the FX drama opens up about his time in the suit. Alien: Earth secret star Cameron Brown on being a 'vegan xenomorp

The Aussie playing the ferocious creature on the FX drama opens up about his time in the suit.

Alien: Earth secret star Cameron Brown on being a 'vegan xenomorph' and working 'essentially blind'

The Aussie playing the ferocious creature on the FX drama opens up about his time in the suit.

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Babou Ceesay as Morrow, Cameron Brown in the xenomorph suit for 'Alien: Earth'. Credit:

Around the *Alien: Earth* set, Cameron Brown is known as the "vegan xenomorph." He's an actor and stuntman from Australia who provides the physical performance of the vicious creature that eats everyone on the FX drama series — and he happens to be a vegan.

"The irony of it is not lost on me, for sure," Brown tells ** in one of his first interviews on the role.

"He is the star of our show. He should have just gone solo for the press tour," Sydney Chandler, who leads the series as the hybrid Wendy, comments of the performer. "It's not just stand up and put on a suit and ta-da! You're terrifying. He really got it down to a T. It makes our jobs so much easier when you are legitimately terrified of the 8-foot vegan xenomorph running at you, dripping K-Y Jelly out of his two mouths."

Yes, K-Y Jelly was used to create the xenomorph's saliva.

The xenomorph (Cameron Brown) attacks Hermit (Alex Lawther) on 'Alien: Earth'.

For *Alien: Earth*, Brown is the man in the suit for the creature showcased in the first three episodes, the one that dies by Wendy's hand. He then returned for the fifth installment, which flashes back to the chaos that caused the USCSS Maginot to crash into Earth. For the later episodes, Jayde Rutene then plays the full-grown xenomorph who bonds with Wendy after it's birthed in the Prodigy lab.

Brown doesn't consider himself a "creature performer" and hasn't had many creature-specific auditions prior to *Alien: Earth*. Brown portrayed an elven soldier in the pilot episode of *The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power*, which filmed nearby in New Zealand. He also played a War Boy on *Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga*, and performed stunts for *The Fall Guy*, *Sweet Tooth*, and *Avatar: The Way of Water*.

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Typically, Brown explains, when he gets creature work, it's because he's already involved in a project. The latest example was *Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes*. "There's a lot of chimpanzee and gorilla and orangutan movement," he recalls. "Learning the whole movement language of that was a really interesting opportunity."

*Alien: Earth* came to him as a typical audition, only instead of reading sides, he submitted a tape of himself crawling around on all fours, unfurling from a curled position on the floor, or moving from a quadrupedal to a bipedal state. When he got the job, he watched Ridley Scott's *Alien* (1979), James Cameron's *Aliens* sequel (1986), David Fincher's *Alien 3* (1992), and Paul W.S. Anderson's *Alien vs. Predator* (2004) to make sure his movements felt authentic to what was already canon. He also dove into *Alien* comic books and fan art, taking note of the creature's silhouettes.

"A lot of the stuff that was really interesting to me was behavioral, why this creature does what it does in certain moments. What's motivating it to, say, chase after Hermit [Alex Lawther] the whole time without killing him. I was looking at animals like bears. When they stand up and become bipedal, why do they do that? That was something that I wanted to lean into. When this [xenomorph] stands up, it's to be intimidating or threatening. Then when it actually goes into attack mode, it drops down to all fours and you get the speed and explosive power of the creature."

The xenomorph (Cameron Brown) smiles for her close-up on 'Alien: Earth'.

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However, life inside the suit, which is a mixture of silicon and foam latex, is limiting. Visibility, he says, was his biggest handicap. Brown's head rests inside the neck of the xenomorph with "two teardrop holes" to see through. "I got really good at identifying who people were on the crew by the color of their shoes," he notes.

Brown admits the obvious: "Being essentially blind while trying to do action sequences was the biggest learning curve." So he'd often rehearse the choreography while wearing the head but not the neck piece. Brown would determine the movements and the distance between him and the other actors, and then, he says, "essentially do it blind" with the full suit on "and use the muscle memory to navigate the set."

It's difficult for Brown to accurately describe the physical endurance required for this kind of work. He admits nothing required of him stood out as impossibly hard, but says, "It was all this same level of, 'I ran a marathon yesterday, I'm gonna run a marathon again today, but I can keep running a marathon for the next six weeks. This is fine.'"

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