It is very difficult say no something to James Cameron, but it is exactly what Michelle Rodriguez, since the actress refused to let her character return from the dead in ‘Avatar 3’ or any of the upcoming sequels to the successful sci-fi saga. This is what Rodriguez has commented on the matter in a recent interview with Vanity Fair:
When I saw James Cameron recently, he said to me, ‘I was thinking, ‘What if Michelle came back? A lot of the other characters came back in The Shape of Water.’ And I said, “You can’t do that, I died a martyr.”
Rodriguez is referring to Trudy Chacón, the pilot she played in ‘Avatar,’ who sacrificed herself in combat to ensure that the humans were able to defeat the humans in their attempt to gain control of Pandora. a heroic death that the actress does not want to tarnish, because she is also fed up with something like this happening with her characters in other films.
Why don’t you want to come back?
And it is that, as she herself remembers, it would have already been the fourth time that a saga revives a character played by Rodriguez: “I came back in ‘Resident Evil’, I wasn’t supposed to. I came back in ‘Machete’, I wasn’t supposed to. I went back to ‘Letty’, I shouldn’t have done it. We can’t do a fourth time, that would be an exaggeration!“
Therefore, We can already rule out that Rodriguez reappears in some way in future installments of ‘Avatar’, and he is honored to have made that decision, since many other interpreters would surely have accepted. After all, it is the most important franchise in today’s cinema and that surely translates into a succulent check for your participation.
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