40 Years Later, Sigourney Weaver Recreates Iconic 'Aliens' Line With Baby Yoda at the Oscars

While presenting the Oscars for best Product Design and best Visual Effects, the stars of this year's Star Wars film, The Mandalorian & Grogu—Sigourney Weaver and Pedro Pascal—talked a little bit about their experiences with other worlds. Pascal noted that Weaver has a lot of experience with other worlds and aliens, which led to a revelation: Baby Yoda was in the audience.

Yes, Grogu himself was sitting next to Kate Hudson, which prompted Weaver to say: "Get away from him, you b*tch!" This was, of course, in reference to her well-known line from the 1986 film Aliens, in which her character Ripley says "get away from her, you b*tch" to the alien queen, while protecting the young girl Newt (Carrie Henn). Pascal noted that this was a solid "character callback."

Hudson took it all in good stride, and later, Conn O'Brien noted that Grogu seemed incapable of clapping.

Weaver and Pascal handed out the Oscar for Best Production Design to Frankenstein, while Avatar: Fire and Ash took home Best Visual Effects. Weaver was clearly moved by the Avatar win, which makes sense. Weaver has been in all three of James Cameron's Avatar movies, playing the character of Dr. Grace Augustine. Weaver also, of course, worked with Cameron in Aliens, which is where that "get away" line comes from in the first place. (And, in case you missed it, in 2024, David Jonsson recreated the "get away from her" line in the hit film Alien: Romulus.)

In The Mandalorian and Grogu, Weaver will play Colonel Ward, a former Rebel Alliance badass who gives Din Djarin (Pascal) his newest mission. The Mandalorian and Grogu hit theaters on May 22, 2026.