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Sue: You can tell it’s some poor sod with a blanket over him.
Me: As opposed to the BBC employing a real alien, you mean?
Adventures with the Wife in Space

"Die you rubber representation of post-atomic horror!"

"Often you'll hear filmmakers say, 'Let's do something that doesn't look like a man in a suit.' I've said it myself, in fact. 'Let's do something more high-tech, not a man in a suit.' But a man in a suit works just fine as long as you connect the character's mythology as humanoid, as an alien man. 'Man in a suit' only denotes the technology that got you there. As long as it doesn't look like a man in a suit, it doesn't matter if that's the technology you use to get there."

“Chris warned me that the work is cramped, unpleasant, you can’t go to the bathroom and you struggle to move, but you’re paid the SAG rate and you get to be in movies.”
Dane DiLiegro on how he started a career on this trope

Are these animals real? Can we prove they even exist or are they merely men in rubber suits with COSTUMES DESIGNED BY tricksters SHAREN DAVIS we may never learn the answer 'what lurks below'.

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