James Cameron’s movies have a way of challenging the film industry, and what it’s visually capable of. The Avatar franchise (which is streaming with a Disney+ subscription) is no exception, and the trailer for Fire and Ash introduced fans to a new tribe of Na’vi and the villainous Varang. Although the actress who plays her dropped F-bomb about her character that might have me changing my mind about her.
What we know about Avatar: Fire and Ash is super limited, which is why the first footage was so thrilling for moviegoers. For the first time we’re going to see tribes of the Na’vi in conflict with each other, thanks to the entrance of the Mangkwan aka the Ash People. Oona Chaplin plays the leader Varang, and spoke to Empire about why she’s become more aggressive and left the Na’vi’s God Eywa behind her. In her words:
They got hit by a natural disaster and what Varang did was say, ‘Well, fuck Eywa.’ She basically goes towards a different power, and tries to harness that, and in so doing kind of raises her people out of misery. It’s easy to fall into the villain mentality, but actually she’s the hero of her people. Because she’s saved them out of misery and starvation and begging.
2025 movie release list. Chaplin is expected to appear in the fourth movie too, so we should get used to this newcomer.