THE 5TH WAVE event with Author Rick Yancey – Hag talks to Rick
Hag checks out the incredible views of London from the event venue
Rick with Lucy Mangan (Gueardian and Stylist Columnist)
Hag: What’s the scariest alien and why?
Rick: From my popular culture……the scariest alien ever? Oh, its gonna be the alien in the movie ‘Alien’ – I mean come on.
That thing gave me nightmares! How could it be anything else.
Have you seen Prometheus? Don’t go see it(laughs in the audience).
…its a bizarre film. OK, I tell you why…I don’t know if you’ve seen the film….but there’s this scene, where they’re on this planet – its sort of like, lets incubate the deadliest species in the universe kind of place….right. So its filled with kinds of nastiness…right.
So us humans go in and we’re so advanced and so smart that the men we get in there – two of the guys take off their air breathing things and start picking up these things(Laughter in the audience). It was at that moment that I was thinking – we deserve to die!! (Laughter in the audience)
We certainly have not evolved enough.
Dad: Why do you find the alien in ‘Alien’ so scary?
Rick: Whats not to find scary?!
Um…the fact that they incubate inside of you, That sort of things gross and scary.
The fact that have not one, but two sets of teeth – right. They have that mouth that comes over and then that little guy (Laughter in the audience as he shows with his hands what it looks like). As teenagers we all do through that don’t we?
We have that big mouth and then that little mean mouth (Laughter in the audience)
Its scary as it has acid for blood – then you see the second one (Aliens) and they have the people hanging up there and they’re waiting for the little egg to come out – its all that stuff.
Hag and Con with the ‘Alien’
Rick points out the owl image in the cover design
Hag with the award winning Author
Hag’s signed book
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