In Avatar, Dr. Grace Augustine was originally played by Sigourney Weaver. But later, she slipped into the role of a teenage Keri Water road and Fire and ash.
Playing a 15-year-old girl to a 76-year-old woman is quite a challenge for the actress, as she previously revealed.
But in a new interview with Hollywood Reportr, she thinks about the story of Kairi, Jake and Neytiri’s adopted daughter, in the final part.
“I’m coming of age. All kids do it because mom and dad are busy; they have their own problems. We were suddenly thrown out on our own and forced to learn to trust ourselves and each other and encourage quarrels,” the actress began.
She continues: “Kerry is in a very uncomfortable position where she is having to do something that she doesn’t feel she can do, and doesn’t want to do – she doesn’t want to risk her best friend’s life. She just has to follow her instincts.”
Sigourney adds, “It’s as if she doesn’t have time to keep worrying about feeling different from everyone else, as if she can’t put her feet on the ground until she knows who her father is — until she knows more about what’s going on with Ewa. She has to let go of all that and help her family survive.”
“They go through this crucible, and I think it changes them,” she says. “That moment when Kairi is finally able to protect Neytiri is a big moment for me.”
“At the beginning [Way of Water]I physically felt like Keri was saying, “Mom! Stop!” Having a teenage daughter is a completely different experience. “Maybe Zoe was shocked.” Alien says the star.
“If I said red, she said blue,” I heard her say to a reporter. If I said yes, she said no.” Anyway, that moment when I was finally able to protect my mother after so many years of her protecting me, was very meaningful to me…. “Her pain is real.”
“I think she’s trying to understand the world and her place in it when nothing she sees makes sense,” Sigourney concludes. “Children see things and feel things strongly.”
Avatar: Fire and Ashes Plays in movie theaters.