The Way Sigourney Weaver Is Back for Avatar 2 Is Absolutely Unhinged

Ever since we first heard, roughly 17 billion years in the past, that Sigourney Weaver would return for James Cameron’s Avatar sequels, we had been all perplexed (much more so than with the thought of there being a number of Avatar sequels). But now we really know how Weaver is coming again, we’re… by some means much more perplexed.

Empire Magazine has revealed that Weaver—who performed Dr. Grace Augustine, the developer of the Human-Na’vi switcheroo Avatar Program within the unique film, who died in its climax—will likely be taking part in a completely new character in Avatar: The Way of Water. And no, it’s not a human: it’s the teenage daughter of Avatar’s protagonists, Jake and Neytiri.

Weaver will play Kiri, the adopted daughter of the couple, and simply one in every of many of Jake and Neytiri’s household that we’re seemingly going to satisfy in The Way of Water. “I think we all pretty much remember what we were feeling as adolescents,” Weaver advised Empire of what it was prefer to play a digitized blue teenager. “I certainly do. I was 5’ 10” or 5’ 11” after I was 11. I felt strongly that Kiri would really feel awkward lots of the time. She’s looking for who she is. I used to be thrilled to be provided that problem by Jim.”

Now look, grownup actors play kids on a regular basis, particularly on this planet of voice performing, and it does appear from at the very least one nonetheless Empire launched of Kiri that Weaver may also seem in some capability as Dr. Augustine once more, presumably by way of archival footage. But contemplating the flowery mocap rigs that we all know carry the Na’vi to life for probably the most half, there’s going to be one thing bizarre about watching Weaver’s bodily efficiency be transposed onto a teen. A lanky blue alien teenager, positive, however a teen nonetheless.

Avatar: The Way of Water is set to hit theaters in December 2022.

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