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Michelle Rodríguez: Why she refused to return to Avatar

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Michelle Rodriguezthe main actress of the most famous franchise in the universe of Fast & Furiousspanning decades, he recalled declining to appear Avatar: The Path of Waterthe film nominated for an Oscar this year, following the death of his character in the first film, released in December 2009, and which remains the highest-grossing film in the history of cinema.

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Trudy (Rodriguez) was a fighter pilot working for the Avatar Program. of the government, who is killed in battle after sacrificing his life to support the indigenous Na’vi of Pandora. But Rodríguez flatly refused to appear in the franchise again, telling the director of Avatar: The Path of Waterthe great James CameronWhy.

“When I saw Jim (Cameron) recently, he was like, ‘I was thinking, ‘What if Michelle comes back…? Many of the other characters have returned the path of the water…”, Rodríguez recreated the dialogue in front of Vanity Fair. “I was like, No, Jim you can’t do that, I’m not just dead, I died a fucking martyr!”

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Michelle Rodriguez, as Trudy Chacon in the first "Avatar".  Photo File Clarin

Michelle Rodriguez, as Trudy Chacon in the first “Avatar”. Photo File Clarin

The actress of Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves He added in the same interview that it would be “really a stretch” for his character to return posthumously, with no pun or multiverse, franchise roles notwithstanding,”especially mine, they always come back from the dead”.

“I always come back from the dead”

“Like, I came back alive and well resident Evilwhen I shouldn’t have done it,” he told Cameron himself. “Do you want more? Machete and he didn’t even have to. I came back with lettyand he shouldn’t have done it. We can’t do it a fourth time, Jim, that would be excessive!

Alongside Sophia Lillis, Justice Smith and Chris Pine in the recent

Alongside Sophia Lillis, Justice Smith and Chris Pine in the recent ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’. UIP photo

Rodríguez continued: “I don’t understand, it’s all so strange… 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?’”

The co-star of Fast X by Rodríguez, Vin Dieselwould participate in an upcoming film Avatars due to a visit to the set of Water Street… which went absolutely viral.

In an Instagram video, Diesel himself said, standing next to the famed director, that there was a serious chance it would happen sooner rather than later. Diesel: “There’s one person in Hollywood with whom I’ve always wanted to work and what I’ve always wanted to learn from, so it all comes, I suppose, to those who wait…”.

With Vin Diesel in "Fast and Furious 9".  It is said that there

With Vin Diesel in “Fast and Furious 9”. The actor is rumored to be joining a new ‘Avatar’.

“We have to do this,” Cameron said BBC1 in December 2022.”We have to do this to bring the world back into balance”.

Returning to Rodríguez, and now according to a quote from the specialized media Espinof“We can already rule out Rodríguez reappearing in any way in future installments of Avatars“, a decision that somehow “does him credit, since many other interpreters would certainly have accepted”.

In other words, good for the actress because, after all, Avatars It is the most important franchise in current cinema and a holding there –revive, revive or whatever, it would result in a hefty check for their participation.

Source: Clarin

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