# What happened to Sigourney Weaver in Star Wars **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 3, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-sigourney-weaver-in-star-wars/172893 "2003-05-03T19:25:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rusalka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecd19e/32.png) [@Rusalka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rusalka)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-sigourney-weaver-in-star-wars/172893/1 "2003-05-03T19:25:19Z")
I saw a picture and description of Sigourney Weaver playing a character in one of the prequels. She was some sort of bounty hunter I think, and had an antenna sticking out of her head (no joke). What was that all about, and why isn’t she in the prequel? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-sigourney-weaver-in-star-wars/172893/2 "2003-05-03T21:00:54Z")
First I’ve heard of it. Sure it wasn’t someone’s photoshop joke? ---
**Author:** ![Rusalka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecd19e/32.png) [@Rusalka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rusalka)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-sigourney-weaver-in-star-wars/172893/3 "2003-05-03T21:39:57Z")
No, I saw one of those cardboard cutouts of her in Borders around when Episode II came out. I think she was blue, and bald. ---
**Author:** ![Carter\_the\_Great](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Carter\_the\_Great](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carter_the_Great)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-sigourney-weaver-in-star-wars/172893/4 "2003-05-03T22:38:02Z")
I’m thinking your mind is playing tricks on you. Or you are the victim of a friend’s cruel joke. By your description it sounds like Aurra Sing (bounty hunter with an antenna) which was not played by Sigourney in her one second part in Epi 1. Rumor had it that she would have a bigger part in Epi 2 but that character was changed entirely. So, with all due kindness… you are mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-sigourney-weaver-in-star-wars/172893/5 "2003-05-03T23:54:55Z")
Aurra Sing was played by Michelle Borriague. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-sigourney-weaver-in-star-wars/172893/6 "2003-05-04T01:04:07Z")
Also, Aurra Sing is NOT blue. The female bounty hunter in Episode II is Zam Wessell (I forget who plays her), and she’s a changling. She usually appears as an attractive humanoid female, who changes to an alien. (I forget the species name) ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-sigourney-weaver-in-star-wars/172893/7 "2003-05-04T02:12:11Z")
Sigourney Weaver was sitting right next to E.T. and Willow. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-sigourney-weaver-in-star-wars/172893/8 "2003-05-04T02:23:48Z")
I thought she was the female Wookie. Don’t know what she played in the movie, though. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-sigourney-weaver-in-star-wars/172893/9 "2003-05-04T02:32:18Z")
Um, she was eaten by the … alien predator? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-sigourney-weaver-in-star-wars/172893/10 "2003-05-04T15:51:50Z")
And wasn’t Sally Struthers going to play Jabba The Hut? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-sigourney-weaver-in-star-wars/172893/11 "2003-05-04T16:43:33Z")
I hear Lucas is planning to break continuity within the _Star Wars_ universe **again** by having the Borg appear in the next prequel – two centuries before the citizens of the galaxy were supposed to have met the Borg for the first time! ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-sigourney-weaver-in-star-wars/172893/12 "2003-05-04T18:37:36Z")
The same thing that happened to James Caan in _Thunderball_. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-sigourney-weaver-in-star-wars/172893/13 "2003-05-04T21:17:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \* > \*\*Sigourney Weaver was sitting right next to E.T. and Willow. \*\* To be fair, there _were_ [ETs in the Phantom Menace](http://www.theforce.net/episode1/hidden/hidden_stuff_page_11.shtml). ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-sigourney-weaver-in-star-wars/172893/14 "2003-05-05T16:41:52Z")
Willow was in TPM, too. I think the OP means this chick: [http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/slymoore/eu.html](http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/slymoore/eu.html) But it’s not Sigourney Weaver. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-sigourney-weaver-in-star-wars/172893/15 "2003-05-05T16:56:53Z")
Some years back in Time magazine was a picture of rescue workers picking up a female Olympic runner, who had crashed on the track. There was some controversy, because the picture had been digitally retouched (one of the first cases, as I recall) to remove a portable radio antenna which appeared to be sprouting from her chin. I remember thinking that the runner, who was jutting her jaw forward in a pain-filled grimace, looked like Sigorney Weaver. Perhaps this is what you are thinking of? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-sigourney-weaver-in-star-wars/172893/16 "2003-05-05T20:44:25Z")
Testing my memory: The runner was Mary Decker-Slaney, knocked down off the starting block by Zola Budd. I don’t remember much of a controversy. I seem to recall that nobody noticed when the picture originally ran in its altered form, but that _Time_ did a page on the alteration in their “year in pictures” wrapup a few months later. They explained that they thought it was a good enough picture to warrant the change, and that it didn’t materially impact the content of the photo, but that it was still worth mentioning and discussing in terms of the ethics of photojournalism.