Actress Veronica Cartwright is planning to take film director Ridley Scott to court for damages, rumor has it.
In the famous 'Belly Bursting' scene in Alien, Cartwright like the other actors, had not been told about the blood and real guts that would pour out of the stomach of the Hurt character.
At the time of the film, Cartwright was hit directly by a stream of puke and guts. She passed out, pissed herself, and nearly died of a heart attack through laughing at how absurd the whole event was.
But she has recently read the clever article by Suzzzan Moore in the Guardian and thinks, well fuck it, Ridley didn't tell us about the guts and, apart from spoiling a good pair of knickers, in principle, I could have had a heart attack. After all, I am now simply known as the girl with the guts on her in Alien.
Cartwright has declined to say how much she was paid as a young actress to be 'abused' by Scott and John Hurt.
Debate Magazine
