VIDEO : 30 years after Aliens, Sigourney Weaver is Still Leading the Charge

More than three decades after Sigourney Weaver first battled space creatures in "Alien," the crusade for more female representation in action films is finally being won.
While gathered with her former co-stars at Comic-Con last weekend to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the second film in the "Alien" franchise, Weaver said it was important to her that Ripley not be portrayed as weak.
Weaver told CNN, "I don't know that I really knew, "Oh, I'm a woman action star" because I was thinking of myself as the character. I thought of myself as a woman who had to kick ass because no one else has the knowledge I have."