The music and movie star, subject of the new documentary 'Moonage Daydream,' made his big-screen debut as an alien in Nicolas Roeg’s sci-fi classic.
Bowie plays a humanoid alien named Thomas Jerome Newton who lands in New Mexico in search of water. While on Earth, Thomas patents alien technology and gets very rich, with the intention of using it to build a vessel to bring water home. He meets Mary-Lou , who introduces him to the earthly pleasures of TV, booze and sex.
“He wasn’t putting it on,” Roeg wrote of Bowie’s performance in his 2011 memoir. “For example, Bowie has a marvelous laugh. It was just left of center. It was like, ‘Isn’t that how they laugh on Earth?’ ” is now considered a sci-fi classic, revered by directors like Christopher Nolan, who cast Bowie as Nikola Tesla in 2006’s. Roeg died at age 90 in 2018; Bowie was 69 when he died of liver cancer two years earlier.
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