Peter Dinklage Joins Alien: Earth Season 2

0:00It's April 28th. This is Entertainment and celebrity news today, AI-powered stories from the spotlight. Peter Dinklage is jumping into Season 2 of Alien, Earth in a mystery role, and Cindy Chandler, the star playing Wendy, was one of the last to hear. The news. She's straight up thrilled, screaming when she found out. Chandler's character is a dying young girl whose mind gets uploaded into a synthetic body by some shady corporation called Prodigy. Noah Holley from Fargo is running the show, bringing the Alien franchise to TV for the first time. Dinklage knows his way around big genre hits. He snagged four Emmy Awards as Tyrion Lannister on Game of Thrones, popped up as Dr. Trask in X-Men, Days of Future Past, and just wrapped a killer. Roll and Dexter, Resurrection. Chandler's been riding high on her performance, channeling that classic Alien vibe without even trying to top Sigourney Weaver's Ripley. He's a lifelong fan who watched the originals way too young, so dodging a real xenomorph

1:01onset hit different terrifying, but epic. Her Wendy's evolved from sweet and naive to straight angry after losing her innocence. Now she's finally getting those Season 2 scripts, dying to see if Wendy chills out, or goes full ice queen. Earlier this week, she landed a Gotham TV Award nomination for Best Lead in a Drama, on top of nods from the Independent Spirit Awards in sci-fi, Horror Honors. With Emmy Noms dropping July 8th, the buzz around Alien, Earth is only building, and Dinklage's edition has everyone locked in for what's next.