William Hope Talks Aliens

[Corporal Hicks]

Dead Mouse Productions recently published a short interview with William Hope, the actor behind Lt. Gorman in Aliens – and also Dr Groves in AvP 2010 and Waits in Alien Isolation – in which the actor recalls his time involved with the film. In the interview, titled You Always Were an Asshole Gorman, he talks about having a stand-off with James Cameron after the cast got intoxicated on the set, about response to his performance and subtext within the script.

Thanks to Dan Guess for the link.

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[Doggo33]

The wikipedia page for William Hope says that in terms of AVP he voiced "- Dr. Groves/Predator/Alien".
Interesting 

[Corporal Hicks]

"Rooooaaarrr!" - William Hope, Predator.
"Scccreeeeecccchhhh!" - William Hope, Alien.

[LastSurvivor92]

Sounds like a completely different person opposite of what he played in Aliens. Sounds like just an awesome, laid back dude. I never would of thought the actors would of got smashed and smoked some pot. That made me laugh quite a bit. Every time I watch Aliens now I'm going to see Gorman (William Hope) in a totally new light...but in a good way lol.

[ken.ward.54379]

Awesome. I did found it to be a surprise they had a moment to relax. The special features in the Anthology stated pretty clearly that Cameron wouldn't even allow tea time for the British. What a classic experience for these guys.

[Russ]

He didn't understand the importance of tea in our lives.

Seriously, though - wasn't that some union bullshit that they were entitled to x tea breaks a day and damn the consequences to the schedule. I can't remember the exact thing from the documentary just now.

[Corporal Hicks]

I believe that was the reason. Unions. It's been a while since I watched the documentaries too. I might try and watch them over Christmas. I got the Quadrilogy the Christmas it was released and remember spending my holidays watching all the features and multiple versions of the films.

[whiterabbit]

Damn the schedules. Actors are human beings too. Tea breaks should be American policy. Beer breaks if you're shooting in texas or hawaii. 

Gorman was such a noob.