The reason Sigourney Weaver has never directed a movie: “I don’t want to deal with those people”It’s a mark of just how influential the movie Alien was in 1979 that trying to find a female action lead in a movie is a very tough task indeed. Sigourney Weaver blazed a trail up in space, blasting xenomorphs to pieces and instantly became one of the coolest movie stars in the process. She told the New York Times back in 2022: “Whenever I used to go to Hollywood and have to deal with these different studio heads, I was never comfortable. By this point, she was up there with Jodie Foster and Meryl Streep as the most in-demand female actors in the business. It’s always important to look back at landmark films and performances and have a think about just how game-changing they were in the time they were made.