David Jonsson is having his glow-up moment. After turning on the charm in last year’s rom-com “Rye Lane” and scaling the walls of the London financial world in the first two seasons of HBO’s “Industry,” Jonsson is exploding into the public conscious with his first studio film role in Fede Alvarez ‘s “ Alien: Romulus .” As an early synthetic named Andy, Jonsson enters a long line of android characters throughout the “Alien” franchise , but in a recent interview with GQ UK , said his stands out from the rest.
“I wanted to make Andy, Andy,” Jonsson said. “I actually think it’s a disservice when I say I wanted to make him my own, which I have said before, and it’s not true. On the page, he’s this brilliant character.
He’s got almost two sides to him, and he’s going through a bit of a coming-of-age. When I look at all the other synthetic characters in the franchise, Fassbender ..
. you know someone who people always leave off? Winona Ryder [in ‘Alien: Resurrection’], and I thought she was brilliant. But when I look at all of those, they’re not like Andy.
Andy’s unique in many ways, and I just wanted to embrace it. I try not to put any pressure on it and make it true.” Part of Andy’s uniqueness is that he’s distinctly a synthetic, whereas other characters, like Ash in the orignal “Alien,” played by Ian Holm, were meant to blend in amongst the human crew.
Because Andy was an early synthetic and retains his original chip, he stil.