Aside from a new perspective on Pandora, Avatar: The Way of Water brings a lot of mystery in it especially with the return of certain characters which are, technically, dead in the first film but coming back in the sequel. For Sigourney Weaver, after the death of Dr. Grace, she'll be in the movie as Kiri and she reveals how.
Sigourney Weaver played Dr. Grace in Avatar and this time, for Avatar: The Way of Water, she will be back for another character close to her previous one, the daughter of Dr. Grace, Kiri, who was later adopted by Jake Sully and Neytiri.
The 73-year-old actress plays a teenager, a wild casting choice for the movie, but it works well and in an interview with ComicBook.com, Sigourney Weaver shares how her uncanny come back in Avatar: The Way of Water was made possible with James Cameron.
Weaver said, "We had lunch together in 2010 and part of the reason we had lunch is we kind of wanted to spitball about this idea that maybe there'd be a girl character who had a relationship with Grace but that she felt more at home in the forest... So, we kind of talked about some basic thoughts about her."
Weaver added, "We didn't know about Spider and we certainly didn't know any of the specifics, but just the idea, and Jim is crazy enough to cast me as a 14-year-old and as he said that day and several times afterward, 'This is your natural age. You are 14, you are that immature. I know that about you.'"
Weaver even needed a lot of convincing but she ended up giving it a shot, "He also knows that I'm a clown. And, and so I don't think he was as worried as I was when he told me, I was like, 'Alright, how am I gonna do this?'
Weaver also explained how she figured out being a 14-year-old to play Kiri, "Luckily I had plenty of time to figure out not only how to do it, but how I wanted to do it, which was not imitating a 14 year old, but really finding, unearthing my unhappy 14-year-old in some ways and letting her exist in this space."
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Avatar: The Way of Water will not only expand everyone's views on Pandora but it will also see the growth of the family of Jake Sully and Neytiri as they get kids, Neteyam, Loak, and Tuktirey, with their adopted Na'vi teenager, Kiri, and the human kid, Spider.
While it would be focusing on their family, the Na'vi will be facing a familiar threat, one that they thought they cast out a decade ago, as the humans return once more and pose a new threat to Pandora.
As Sigourney Weaver returns in Avatar: The Way of Water in a different character, another one coming back is Stephen Lang, but in his instance, he is back as the same character he played before, Colonel Miles Quaritch. How that is possible is for the sequel to answer.
Avatar: The Way of Water arrives in theaters on December 16, 2022.
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