The director tells EW the Oscar winner’s involvement “got a little bit misreported.”
Oscar winnerMichelle Yeoh’s arrival in theAvatarmovies will happen later than expected.
“Michelle Yeoh won’t be in3.
She’s in4and5,” Cameron tells EW beside starsSam WorthingtonandZoe Saldana.
“So that got a little bit misreported.
She will be coming in soon to do her part, which is an interesting, fun character.
I mean, we’re getting ahead of ourselves now.
This whole thing has been planned for years and years.
The scripts were all written years ago, through the end of movie5.
We had to shoot them all while they were still young.”
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“We love Michelle,” the director added.
“She was always a movie star, but she’s blown up into a huge, huge phenomenon.
I look forward to working there.”
DisneyannouncedYeoh in the role of Dr. Karina Mogue in theAvatarfranchise back in 2019.
According to the caption, the snapshot was taken “between set-ups while filmingAvatar 3.”
“He’s a genius; he’s a walking genius,” she said at the time.
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It’s also got very high emotional stakes more than ever before.
Were going into really challenging territory for all the characters you know and love."
As the filmmakerspreviously promised, each sequel will introduce a new biome of Pandora.
“There are good humans, and there are bad humans.
It’s the same thing on the Na’vi side,” Landau previously teased of the Ash People.
“Oftentimes, people don’t see themselves as bad.
What is the root cause of how they evolve into what we perceive as bad?
Maybe there are other factors there that we aren’t aware of.”
With additional reporting by Sydney Bucksbaum.
