Netflix’s live-adaptation of the beloved Nickelodeon animated sequence Avatar: The Last Airbender might have misplaced the unique showrunners, however the sprawling solid simply retains getting larger. The streaming service has introduced who’ll be taking part in a bevy of roles, together with main antagonist Azula.

Elizabeth Yu, a newcomer, will play the troubled Fire Nation princess who turns into twisted below her father’s emotionally abusive tutelage and serves as one of many sequence’ greatest threats after Prince Zuko (performed by Dallas Liu within the live-action sequence) joins Team Avatar in later seasons. Native rights advocate and actor Casey Camp Horinek will play the Water Tribe chief and grandmother of Katara (Kiawentiio) and Sokka (Ian Ousley), a.okay.a. Gran-Gran.

Several members of the Earth Kingdom have been introduced as nicely. Maria Zhang will play Suki, a love curiosity of Sokka’s however extra importantly the badass chief of the equally badass Okyoshi warriors, an elite cadre of all-female fighters based by the Avatar Okyoshi to guard her house island. Tamlyn Tomita (The Good Doctor, Cobra Kai) will play Yukari, Suki’s mom and the mayor of their village on Kiyoshi Island. Finally, talking of the previous Avatar, PEN15‘s Yvonne Chapman will play Okyoshi herself, the deceased Avatar who preceded Aang (Gordon Cormier). Interestingly, Okyoshi’s solely look within the first season of Avatar: The Last Airbender is as a statue within the Air Nomad temple; she doesn’t bodily seem till the second season, a.okay.a. Book Two: Earth, first as a imaginative and prescient skilled by Aang, and later by manifesting in his physique. Netflix has presumably employed Chapman forward of time to be able to nail down the look of the statue, however there stays the chance that Kiyoshi—and doubtlessly the opposite earlier Avatars—may play a bigger position earlier on within the Netflix adaptation than she did within the animated sequence.

Netflix’s adaptation of The Last Airbender has no launch date, nevertheless it’s at the moment in manufacturing in Vancouver, Canada.

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