Lance Henriksen: Aliens was a major turning point for me. I'd seen Ian Holm and Rutger Hauer do their androids, and I thought to myself, "How can I compete with that?" I quickly realized, "Don't compete." The predicament that Bishop was in — I started using my emotional life of when I was 12 years old. If people were mean to me, I'd think, "Well, I'm going to outlive you, so I can forgive you for your behavior." Bishop also saw all living things as this miracle, because he wasn't alive. I also gave it the idea that I was a young black kid in South Africa — if I made a mistake, something bad would happen to me.

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So I had all those things going, but there was an innocence about it that I didn't fully realize would have an impact on the movie. It's an innocence that could be dangerous and offered the audience a lot of questions that needed to be answered. [This role] was all about creating this emotion rather taking it as an intellectual idea.

What did you make of Michael Fassbender's performance as the android David in Prometheus?

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Lance Henriksen: I haven't seen it. I was kind of bugged that they never even talked to me. I'm waiting to see it, but on my cell phone. That's my rebellion. [Alien Versus Predator director] Paul Anderson had a brilliant way of handling [Bishop's appearance], and it ended up being successful for that movie. [Alien 3 screenwriter] Walter Hill also put me on the prison planet. When an idea is good it works. I love Ridley Scott's work, but he didn't go in that direction. But I'm feisty, so I have to watch it on my cell phone.

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