OUT OF THE PAST : The Bald and the Beautiful
Thanks for Sean Mitchell’s cover story interview with Sigourney Weaver (May 17).
Before “Alien 3,” there was “THX 1138” (1971). Another young director, George Lucas, then 25, asked all his actors to shave their heads for roles in that film. In the subterranean, futuristic world of “THX 1138,” the monster is conformity in a society controlled by computers and drugs.
As the lead actress in Lucas’ visionary “THX 1138,” I shared Weaver’s excitement at being bald and “out there” for science fiction.
MAGGIE McOMIE
Santa Monica
After taking several years off to raise her daughter, McOmie is again working as an actress and is now writing a screenplay.
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