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Bolaji Badejo (acted as the xenomorph in the first Alien movie)
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Died at 39 of sickle cell, damn.
Badejo was offered a role in a sequel, but moved back to Nigeria in 1980; this led to the sequels incorporating more puppetry and animation.
Learn something new everyday. I still think the queen puppet was amazing.
It feels like he's staring into my soul and is absolutely dead tired of my bullshit
Just 100% done 😅
wasn’t he eventually the predator in the first movie too?
Alien was Badejo's only acting credit! The predator was played by Kevin Peter Hall
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2025
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