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

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