Sigourney Weaver played Dr. Grace Augustine for the first time Avatar In 2009. But she was asked to play a different role in the upcoming parts.
It was Kairi, a teenage Na’vi character. This was a huge challenge for the 76-year-old actress. But James Cameron, the director of the series, portrayed the character in a wonderful way.
“She was 70, 71 during that time she was taking over Kerry,” he says. the people“, adding: “I mean she can pick up Kerry tomorrow. Nothing has changed. She’s a little older now, but she comes off as a different person. It came in a lighter, more open form. I mean she literally looked like she got younger.”
In the interview, the director acknowledged the challenge for Sigourney in playing such a role. “Because in her mind, she took herself back to her 14- to 15-year-old self. And by the way, it wasn’t all fun and light. It was the darkness of an anxious teenager,” he points out.
“She can [answer] These questions are better than I can, however [Weaver] “She talks about being clumsy and awkward and feeling invisible, and she conveys all of that as well,” James adds.
Sigourney herself admitted, in a previous interview, that playing a teenager gave her a chance to explore her teenage years, during which she was mostly trapped.
“I was so miserable,” she said. empire“, noting, “I was very insecure — and funny, so I managed to survive high school — but I didn’t have any real confidence.”
But playing Kerry, Sigourney noted, gave her “an opportunity to go back and re-enter that state of mind, and be in it and trust myself in a different way.” [with] That character.”
Avatar: Fire and Ashes It hits theaters tomorrow.