“Ridley had sort of said that there was this character who was, um, obsessed with sort of Lawrence of Arabia, and I thought that was kind of an interesting area to explore in terms of sort of the femininity of the character I thought could be kinda interesting and to sort of have this androgynous feel to it and then we spoke also about like other influences like early David Bowie. And then the walk I sort of took from Greg Louganis. I remember seeing him in the eighties with my parents we were watching the Olympics. I just thought ‘wow that’s such an unusual walk’, it was such a neutral sort of position when he used to walk to the edge of the board. So I kinda took that, I don’t know, it just sorta popped into my head.”

—Michael Fassbender, Prometheus Screen Test