Judah Prehn as Max Hawthorne in “Resident Alien.”
Alan Tudyk as Harry Vanderspeigle in “Resident Alien.”
Alan Tudyk plays Harry, the alien who changes in “Resident Alien.”
Harry (Alan Tudyk) wonders what his time in the hospital will mean for him in “Resident Alien.”
Max (Judah Prehn) insists there’s an alien in his bedroom in “Resident Alien.”
Some aliens — and humans — are good at improvising.
At least that’s what “Resident Alien” creator Chris Sheridan has found.
Willing to give his actors leeway with scripts, Sheridan nudged stars Alan Tudyk and Alice Wetterlund to play around before starting a scene. Cameras started rolling and the two bantered for 10 minutes before starting the scripted lines. “It was unbelievable,” Sheridan says.
The actors are so good, he adds, he could fill an entire episode with improv.
Tudyk – who plays Harry, the alien sent to destroy Earth — and Wetterlund – who plays D’Arcy, the bar owner attracted to him – aren’t the only ones skilled at riffing.
Judah Prehn, who plays the only person in town who can see Harry as an alien, is adept, too. “He sees what’s funny and can top it,” Tudyk says. “There’s a scene where he gets a spanking and he just loved getting to riff on, ‘That doesn’t hurt….You’re doing it wrong.’”
Sheridan often defers to the actors when they don’t think lines are in keeping with their characters’ voices.
“And then we have an opportunity to play,” Tudyk says. “You can do the punch line as many different way as you want.”
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