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Weaver plays nasty 'Holes' role for daughter 
April 21, 2003 
BY CINDY PEARLMAN 

  	
Can you dig it? "Holes" had a strong $17.1 million opening at the box office this weekend, 
which means that one actress' consultant made a good call. 

"My daughter plopped the book in my lap ages ago and said, 'Mom, if they ever make this 
into a movie, you have to do it. You just have to,' " Sigourney Weaver laughs and tells 
the Sun-Times. Turning the kiddie classic into a film wasn't easy work for Weaver. "I'm 
the big mean camp director who has to yell at these cute little kids, and I kept thinking, 
'Wow, for the rest of their lives these kids will look back on my old movies and think, 
'She's so nasty! Too bad those aliens didn't get her.' " 

Weaver says that working with Chicago native and director Andrew Davis made the project 
even better. "Andy is such a great guy as well as such an accomplished director. He would 
make sure that we were all drinking water and that we all had sunblock. It was a big huge 
shoot with three cameras, so for him to be taking care of all of us like that was really 
special." 

Up next for Weaver is a movie for HBO about Sotheby's. "It's a snarling funny script by 
Michael Thomas about DeDe Brooks, who was in charge of Sotheby's when the auction house 
began price-fixing with Christie's. It's a modern comedy, but it's also quite moving." 

As for any rumors of another "Alien" film, she admits, "[Director] Ridley Scott and I have 
talked about it a couple of times. He has some ideas. If we developed a good script, I'd 
love to play Ripley again. I've always felt so grateful to Ridley Scott because he gave me 
my first job. In fact, the first few weeks of "Alien,' I was so green that Ridley would say, 
'Don't look at the camera.' And I'd say, 'How can I not look at it. It's right in front of 
my face all the time!' " 

Ask her about plot ideas for a new "Aliens," Weaver says, "The only thing I'm not interested 
in is going to earth. I saw that 'Star Trek' movie where they went to Earth and ... yawn. I 
think it's more fun to go to a foreign planet--especially now. Who wants to come to Earth 
now? Let's go far, far away! Fantasy is what we need!" 

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cindy perlman