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Sigourney Weaver Tears Up at Venice After Reporter Links ‘Alien’s’ Ripley to Kamala Harris: ‘To Think My Work Would Have Anything to Do With Her Rise Makes Me Happy’


Sigourney Weaver got emotional while talking about Kamala Harris during her press conference in Venice ahead of her Golden Lion award.

Sigourney Weaver got emotional while talking about Kamala Harris during her press conference in Venice ahead of her Golden Lion award. Asked about the impact of her acting in empowering women and how cinema in general can make it possible for woman such as Harris to become U.S. president, Weaver said she was “so excited about Kamala.” Weaver didn’t, however, go down the route of many veterans in the industry in bashing superhero films, saying that “Marvel is fine and everybody should be doing what they want.” But she asserted that her personal choice would be Italian cinema.

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