James Cameron says it "makes no sense" Zoe Saldana's Avatar work hasn't received major awards love just because she's playing a CG character

Oct. 22, 2024

“I’ve worked with Academy Award-winning actors, and there’s nothing that Zoe’s doing that’s of a caliber less than that”

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“I’ve worked with Academy Award-winning actors, and there’s nothing that Zoe’s doing that’s of a caliber less than that,” the filmmaker recently toldVariety. “But because in my film she’s playing a ‘CG character,’ it kind of doesn’t count in some way, which makes no sense to me whatsoever.”

Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, The Way of Water reunites us with Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Saldaña), and their kids, as they flee their home in search of a new safe haven on Pandora. But when an old enemy, resurfaces, the family are forced to go to war to protect one another and their people.

“She can go from regal to, in two nanoseconds, utterly feral,” Cameron continued, confirming that the next installment will see Neytiri face up due to her overwhelming grief. “The woman is ferocious. She is a freaking lioness. Her emotional availability is like a fire hose. It just comes through so fast and so powerfully.”

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