I’m a shameless Alien franchise devotee, yet this connection just chest-bursted out of nowhere, and I’m sort of speechless. Lily James has a family tie to Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic, and it reframes one of the eeriest touches from one of the best horror films of all time. Not a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo, but a voice cameo. The voice that keeps the Nostromo calm while everything goes to hell.
The Cinderella star laid it all out while promoting her new thriller Relay. In a wide-ranging chat with The Independent—covering fame, surveillance, Pamela Anderson, and career curveballs—she revealed that her grandmother, American actor Helen Horton, provided the voice of the ship’s computer in Alien. Yes, the soft tones of “Mother” are in Lily James’s bloodline. As she remembered:
