It's always comforting to find a familiar face in strange and potentially hostile settings.
That's especially true if it's a spooky abandoned Weyland-Yutani space station called the Renaissance where secret xenomorph experiments are conducted, as seen in "Alien: Romulus." Avid fans adept at details might quickly notice that Rook, the research base's injured Science Officer in director Fede Alvarez's new "interquel," bears a remarkable likeness to the Nostromo's sleeper cell Science Officer android named Ash in the first "Alien," who was played to perfection by acclaimed British actor Sir Ian Holm. These two key synthetics share a similar Weyland-Yutani parentage and serve to create a narrative bridge between "Alien" and "Alien: Romulus" that not everyone is very happy with due to the ghoulish nature of bringing dead actors back to life using CGI.
