Michelle Rodriguez has downplayed the possibilities of reprising her tole within the upcoming Avatar movie, claiming that it might be “so weird” following her character’s dying.
Avatar: The Way Of The Water – the sequel to 2009’s first of the franchise collection – was launched final yr and noticed the return of Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) after his character was murdered within the first movie.
However, Rodriguez revealed that filmmaker James Cameron prompt that the franchise must also make a return for her character, regardless of her dying in the identical film.
“When I saw Jim recently he was like, ‘I was thinking, What if Michelle came back? A lot of the other characters came back [in The Way of Water]’,” she instructed Vanity Fair.
The actress instantly turned down his request, she revealed. “I was like, ‘You can’t do that – I died as a martyr,” she defined. “Jim, I came back in Resident Evil, I wasn’t supposed to. I came back in Machete, I wasn’t supposed to. I came back with Letty, I wasn’t supposed to. We can’t do a fourth, that would be overkill!’”
She added: “I don’t understand, it’s so weird. I guess they don’t know what to do with the girl who doesn’t have a boyfriend. ‘She doesn’t have a boyfriend. Should we keep her alive, or kill her?’”
Avatar The Way of Water turned a field workplace success – incomes $1billion on the field workplace in its first two weeks of launch earlier than overtaking Cameron’s blockbuster 1997 movie Titanic to be topped the third-highest-grossing film ever.
In a four-star evaluation of the film, NME wrote that it’s “a ground-breaking, visually stunning film.”
Back in 2016, it was introduced that 4 Avatar sequels would observe the unique – with the titles later revealed as Avatar: The Way of Water, Avatar: The Seed Bearer, Avatar: The Tulkun Rider and Avatar: The Quest for Eywa.
Avatar producer Jon Landau lately confirmed that Vin Diesel won’t seem in a future instalment of the franchise, regardless of the actor beforehand suggesting in any other case.
In 2021, Rodriguez requested a rewrite for the unique Fast and Furious script, claiming it was sexist.
Rodriguez’ co-star Jordana Brewster instructed Entertainment Weekly that the actress stated: ”’I’m not going to be a slut in entrance of tens of millions of individuals, so that you’re going to lose me if you happen to don’t change this’.”
Meanwhile, Rodriguez additionally stars within the new Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves – which is out now.