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KATHERINE WATERSTON
JOHN DENVER
The late singer-songwriter has been
ubiquitous on film soundtracks of late,
with his anthem
Take Me Home, Country
Roads
featuring in
Logan Lucky
(set inWest
Virginia, natch) and
more bizarrely as the
distress call that's
picked up in
Alien:
Covenant
. Additionally,
Annie's Song
and
This
Old Guitar
are used
to inappropriate (and
hilarious) effect during
bouts of bloody mayhem in
BenWheatley's
Free Fire
.
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SH
"I
t's so weird being an actor
because some days you're
just swinging upside-down off
the side of a spaceship shooting
an alien and you think, 'What the
hell am I doing here? How did this
happen?'"
It's a fair call from a rising star
whose face you might recognise
from
Boardwalk Empire
, or roles
in
Steve Jobs
and
Inherent Vice
.
Now, following three high profile
films this year, the daughter of
actor SamWaterston is about to
be a whole lot busier.
The scene she's describing is of
course from
Alien: Covenant
, in
which she plays terraformer and
Captain's widow Janet Daniels,
who assumes the Ripley role
when an alien fnds its way onto
the titular colony ship.
"I needed someone who was
physically imposing, tall, athletic
and a great actress," said Ridley
Scott of casting Waterston, also
citing her theatre background as
major plus.
Prior to fighting
aliens, Waterston
was waving wands
alongside Eddie
Redmayne in
Fantastic
Beasts and Where to Find Them
,
as American witch Porpentina
'Tina' Goldstein – a role she
will reprise in the sequel that's
currently filming.
Most recently, she played the
health worker who takes a shine
to Channing Tatum's character
in Steven Soderbergh's
Logan
Lucky
.
Waterston's next big role is as
Marguerite Westinghouse in the
(literally) electric historical drama,
The Current War
(due 2018). The
film details the rivalry between
George Westinghouse (Michael
Shannon) and Thomas Edison
(Benedict Cumberbatch) to create
a sustainable energy system.
She also reteams with Shannon
for the drama
State Like Sleep,
and has just completed the
arthouse sci-fi
Fluidic
and Jonah
Hill comedy
Mid '90s
.
SH
Alien: Covenant
Fantastic Beasts and
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