Everyone knows that facehuggers are best avoided at all costs, right? Like, you don’t want to end up in a fight with them? Not David Jonsson, who plays Andy in Alien: Romulus. Apparently, Jonsson was having so much fun fighting them off over and over that he inadvertently detached his retina filming a scene for the movie.
During a panel at San Diego Comic-Con last night, the group on stage was asked if they had any advice for avoiding facehugger attacks. Jonsson replied that one, it helps to be an artificial person (his character, Andy, is a synthetic), but two…he actually failed to do this exact thing.
“I don’t want to give it away, but there’s a scene in there where I do something relatively cool with the facehugger,” he said. “So I wanted to do it again and again. So they let me do it again and again.”
Jonsson goes on to relate that they had different sized facehuggers to work with in different moments, and he asked to use the big one. “I whip it around and it hits me in the eye and detaches my retina.”
Fortunately, Jonsson appears to be fine now, but it’s one heck of a cautionary tale for anyone getting a little too excited about fending off these creepy guys.
Speaking of facehuggers, anyone who attended that panel at SDCC last night was treated to an awful lot of them in a series of footage shown only in the room, as well as facehuggers distributed to panelgoers at the end. The film is coming out soon, on August 16, 2024, and yes it’s getting a wacky popcorn bucket.
You can catch up on everything announced at SDCC 2024 right here.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Got a story tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.
