Sigourney Weaver, who plays a new character in the upcoming film Avatar: The Way of Water, has spoke up about the inspiration behind her role.
A fantasy adventure sequel to 2009's Avatar, 10 years after the Na'vi defeated the Resources Development Administration, the film follows Jake Sully (Worthington) and his Na'vi wife Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) as they fight to preserve their loved ones and their nation from a new enemy.
Jake and Neytiri have four biological children: Neteyam (Jamie Flatters), Lo'ak (Britain Dalton), Kiri (Weaver), and Miles "Spider" Socorro (a human they saved).
Weaver was recently interviewed by ComicBook.com, and in that interview, she explained where the character of Kiri came from in Avatar: The Way of Water.
A year after the first film's premiere, the actress and Avatar writer-director James Cameron had an early chat about how to include her in the sequel.
Weaver went into depth about her pre-employment preparations as well.
See what he had to say down below:
"In 2010, we met for lunch to brainstorm ideas for the film, and one of those ideas was a female character who was in a relationship with Grace but preferred to be in the woods.
To that end, we discussed our initial impressions of her.
Jim is insane enough to cast me as a 14-year-old, and as he stated that day and countless times subsequently, "This is your natural age." Neither of us knew anything about Spider [a new character in Avatar 2], and we certainly didn't know any of the specifics, but just the notion.
That's how immature a 14-year-old can be.
That's just who you are; I recognize that."
"Jim is also aware of the fact that I perform as a clown.
To be honest, I don't believe he was as concerned as I was when he informed me; I remember thinking, "Alright, how am I going to do this?"
But fortunately I had plenty of time to figure out not just how to do it, but how I wanted to do it, which was not copying a 14-year-old, but rather discovering, uncovering, and allowing my sad 14-year-old self to remain in this place."
With almost $2.8 billion earned at the box office, 2009's Avatar was the highest-grossing picture of all time.
In the film, Weaver played the role of Dr. Grace Augustine, the leader of the Avatar program on Pandora and an exobiologist who developed a strong rapport with the native Na'vi.
The RDA and the military attack the Na'vi village and start a full-scale battle with the local tribe in order to control a rich resource area, resulting in the deaths of many civilians and natives, including Augustine.
Recent revelations by Cameron have established that Kiri is the offspring of Augustine's avatar.
The filmmaker said that Augustine's corpse gave birth naturally.
Kiri believes that as she matures, she is able to feel her mother's presence through Eywa, and she has begun to suppress some of her mother's traits.
Weaver said that Kiri, like certain other Na'vi, has heightened perceptions that let her to hear and feel things that others can't.
The actress theorizes that Kiri's heightened awareness is due to the child's close relationship with Eywa, her spiritual guide.
Kiri will play a pivotal role in the interaction between Jake and Neytiri in Avatar: The Way of Water, which features heavy themes of the significance of family.
Weaver's centrality to the film's broader storyline has been evident even though elements of the film's overall plot involving the Metkayina (Pandoran water tribe) and Colonel Miles Quaritch's (Stephen Lang) return as a Recombinant have been kept under wraps.
As the debut of Avatar: The Way of Water approaches, fans won't have long to wait to see Weaver's return to Pandora.
A fantasy adventure sequel to 2009's Avatar, 10 years after the Na'vi defeated the Resources Development Administration, the film follows Jake Sully (Worthington) and his Na'vi wife Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) as they fight to preserve their loved ones and their nation from a new enemy.
Jake and Neytiri have four biological children: Neteyam (Jamie Flatters), Lo'ak (Britain Dalton), Kiri (Weaver), and Miles "Spider" Socorro (a human they saved).
Weaver was recently interviewed by ComicBook.com, and in that interview, she explained where the character of Kiri came from in Avatar: The Way of Water.
A year after the first film's premiere, the actress and Avatar writer-director James Cameron had an early chat about how to include her in the sequel.
Weaver went into depth about her pre-employment preparations as well.
See what he had to say down below:
"In 2010, we met for lunch to brainstorm ideas for the film, and one of those ideas was a female character who was in a relationship with Grace but preferred to be in the woods.
To that end, we discussed our initial impressions of her.
Jim is insane enough to cast me as a 14-year-old, and as he stated that day and countless times subsequently, "This is your natural age." Neither of us knew anything about Spider [a new character in Avatar 2], and we certainly didn't know any of the specifics, but just the notion.
That's how immature a 14-year-old can be.
That's just who you are; I recognize that."
"Jim is also aware of the fact that I perform as a clown.
To be honest, I don't believe he was as concerned as I was when he informed me; I remember thinking, "Alright, how am I going to do this?"
But fortunately I had plenty of time to figure out not just how to do it, but how I wanted to do it, which was not copying a 14-year-old, but rather discovering, uncovering, and allowing my sad 14-year-old self to remain in this place."
With almost $2.8 billion earned at the box office, 2009's Avatar was the highest-grossing picture of all time.
In the film, Weaver played the role of Dr. Grace Augustine, the leader of the Avatar program on Pandora and an exobiologist who developed a strong rapport with the native Na'vi.
The RDA and the military attack the Na'vi village and start a full-scale battle with the local tribe in order to control a rich resource area, resulting in the deaths of many civilians and natives, including Augustine.
Recent revelations by Cameron have established that Kiri is the offspring of Augustine's avatar.
The filmmaker said that Augustine's corpse gave birth naturally.
Kiri believes that as she matures, she is able to feel her mother's presence through Eywa, and she has begun to suppress some of her mother's traits.
Weaver said that Kiri, like certain other Na'vi, has heightened perceptions that let her to hear and feel things that others can't.
The actress theorizes that Kiri's heightened awareness is due to the child's close relationship with Eywa, her spiritual guide.
Kiri will play a pivotal role in the interaction between Jake and Neytiri in Avatar: The Way of Water, which features heavy themes of the significance of family.
Weaver's centrality to the film's broader storyline has been evident even though elements of the film's overall plot involving the Metkayina (Pandoran water tribe) and Colonel Miles Quaritch's (Stephen Lang) return as a Recombinant have been kept under wraps.
As the debut of Avatar: The Way of Water approaches, fans won't have long to wait to see Weaver's return to Pandora.
