United Kingdom, Sept. 12 -- Sigourney Weaver is too scared to watch Alien: Earth by herself.

The 75-year-old actress launched the Alien franchise playing Ellen Ripley in the original 1979 blockbuster and she went on to appear in three subsequent movies, but she isn't involved in the new spin-off TV series and she's admitted she's too terrified to watch the Disney Plus series without her husband Jim Simpson by her side.

Sigourney told Collider: "I'm watching it like a real person. I have to make a date with my husband because I don't want to see it by myself in case one of those things comes out of the screen.

"So we have to set it up. So I'm behind seeing it, but the ones I've seen are fascinating."

The show - created by Noah Hawley -...