Sigourney Weaver Went Back to High School for Avatar: The Way of Water

Sigourney Weaver’s character within the first Avatar film—Dr. Grace Augustine—is useless. During a press convention for Avatar: The Way of Water on Tuesday, each James Cameron and Weaver needed to make that explicitly clear. But Weaver was such an integral half to Cameron’s imaginative and prescient that he introduced her again for the Avatar sequel, this time as a teenaged Na’vi named Kiri.

Kiri was a very long time coming; apparently Weaver spoke to Cameron in 2010 (only a yr after the unique Avatar’s launch) concerning the character, a lady who “is more comfortable in the forest, among the creatures” than she is within the science lab or even amongst different Na’vi. In order to get in Kiri’s mindset, Weaver stated that she attended highschool lessons so as to good “the pitch” of the teenaged woman.

“I love that I had the opportunity to play a real adolescent,” Weaver stated. “There’s a big range of who an adolescent is between 12 and 15, and once I saw that I realized I can let Kiri come out—whoever she is—and combine her with who I was at 14. It gave me so much to work with. And by the time I got there, I just got to enjoy leaving this shell behind and becoming this sometimes-brat.”

Although Kiri is a completely new character, she does have a stunning reference to Dr. Grace Augustine, which is revealed very early in Avatar: The Way of Water. Find out extra and see Weaver’s teenage flip when the film opens December 16.

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