Yaphet Kotto dead at 81

RIP big guy :rose:


Al 'Gee' Giardello on Homicide: Life on the Street
 
original Alien film, 1979

Yaphet Kotto

R.I.P.

:rose:


He was really excellent in Alien.

BTW, I'm still pissed off at Tom Skerritt for staying alive and ruining what has otherwise been a perfect symmetry between the order that the characters died in Alien and when their actors have died. (Yes, I know Dallas and Brett weren't dead, just cocooned. Small distinction.)
 
He was really excellent in Alien.

BTW, I'm still pissed off at Tom Skerritt for staying alive and ruining what has otherwise been a perfect symmetry between the order that the characters died in Alien and when their actors have died. (Yes, I know Dallas and Brett weren't dead, just cocooned. Small distinction.)

I always liked the fact that instead of being stereotypically the first to die in a horror film, Kotto's character Parker was virtually the last in trying to take the alien out. If he had left Lambert's quivering ass there in the corner, he might have gotten away with Ripley.

https://static.independent.co.uk/2021/03/16/07/newFile-1.jpg?width=982&height=726&auto=webp&quality=75

He was also standing up for fair wages and wanted his cut from the alien discovery. Bruh was not having that Weyland-Yutani Company bullshit. :D

this is a cool aside, though:

https://i.imgur.com/i84AXQH.png

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/yaphet-kotto-said-alien-was-the-answer-to-a-question-he-had-during-the-1963-march-on-washington

:rose:
 
How many systemic tribal cues can go in one story?.... japanese children, thanking the white director for giving him a chance, i have a dream....
 
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