From: Digital Spy
Alien: Covenant is heading to cinemas this Friday and the early reactions have been great, but one of the notable things about the film is that it features the Alien franchise's first openly gay characters.
Lope (Demián Bichir) and Hallett (Nathaniel Dean) are two member of the crew of the Covenant, a ship taking 2,000 colonists to a new planet they're hoping will be a hospitable alternative to earth.
The crew is populated by couples – they're moving to the new place for life, so it's right they would want their loved ones with them – and Lope and Hallett are one of these couples.
We first saw them in the prologue video 'The Last Supper' having a bit of an arm wrestle and a cuddle in a scene set before the crew goes into cryo-sleep. This is a scene not in the film, and at the time of writing Fox seems to have taken it off its YouTube channel, so we can't actually embed it here – sorry.
In the movie it's acknowledged that Lope and Hallett are a couple and also that they're married (both wear wedding rings).
Unlike something like Beauty and the Beast, the franchise introduces its first gay characters without making much of a thing of it. Unlike LeFou's confusion about his feelings, there's no implication here that anyone is confused about their sexuality – in fact in the movie, it's only clearly acknowledged in one brief scene which is a bit of a SPOILER.
If you'd like to know what occurs in that scene, click here. If not, there's nothing more for you here – go see the movie!
SPOILER WARNING
Though the two are seen hanging out together in the ship, it's not obvious they are definitely partners until Hallett inhales some spores which quickly leads to an alien bursting through his face (yuk). Lope witnesses this and grabs him in shock, while Daniels (Katherine Waterston) is telling him "there's nothing you can do". Lope whispers "I love you" before they have to leave him.
It's actually pretty moving. Sniff.
Alien: Covenant opens in cinemas on May 12
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