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Sigourney Weaver discusses her 'Avatar' character Kiri's journey and shares a funny story about watching the young cast, like Jack Champion, grow so tall she now has to look up at them. The young stars themselves—Jack Champion, Bailey Bass, and Trinity Jo-Li Bliss—open up about the surreal experience of growing up on the epic film set.
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00:00Strangely, Kiri feels like the one Navi who can't connect with Awa because she
00:06always has a seizure and she's she's locked out and so I think it's the
00:13greatest heartbreak for her through most of the movie which is she can do
00:18things that she did amaze her and that she doesn't understand but it's not
00:27it's not you know it's a whole journey for her to get back into the world that
00:32everyone else can can visit and I think all the kids come into their own in this
00:39film which I think is very exciting and I really loved being with these kids they
00:47were very kind to accept me as one of them but you know we're so busy I don't
00:53think there was much time to to think about any of those things right can you
00:58talk a bit more about getting to work with them I just got to talk to them
01:00they're so sweet and kind of getting to watch them grow up can you talk about
01:03getting to work with them on most of the scenes really in this film specifically
01:07yeah well I mean Jack was 12 when when we met and he came into the audition and I
01:16was scampering around as Kiri and I said let's do something and then I ran up I
01:22ran all over the stairs and he was running with me and we just improvised for
01:26like I don't know how many 20 minutes and he was so game and I could just tell
01:34he'd make a wonderful spider and so I feel very lucky of course it is astonishing to
01:41me to see to be looking up at Jack instead of down to Jack and and Trinity
01:46to and Britain and I think that James is we're going to see tonight so yeah we're
01:57very lucky and the the Metcayena kids to Bailey and Duane and Philippe
02:10they're so awesome for me it was two years I was 13 to 15 so as much as they're
02:16pivotal times like then you I think the hardest thing was a transition afterwards
02:20because I think high school is the right after middle school to high school and I
02:24wonder if Jackie had the same feeling of like I think that's a pivotal time for
02:28young adults and we didn't like I just got my GED it was homeschooled so I think it
02:35was the transition out of it because you're you have this routine and it's a
02:39really cool routine and no one understands it and you can't tell anyone
02:42about the film so if that was the part that I think was more complex than
02:47actually being there yeah I just remember after getting to be with those
02:52wonderful people every day casting crew and be with my character every day and
02:57just do the things I love and and have that every day to end it was a it was a
03:02tough shift and then to go back to public school and everybody's like where have you
03:06been but um I I think growing up on the Avatar set was the greatest gift like I
03:13definitely would not be who I am today without the amazing people that I've met
03:16who have inspired me without my character too who I've just basically grown up with
03:21now and grown alongside with and it's just all of these things I feel like we've all
03:27been kind of going through the bittersweet nostalgia just thinking about childhood
03:31especially I feel like you put it beautifully the other day when you were
03:34talking about just that's childhood man yeah childhood I mean I don't know there's
03:38like a specific story but it was just it was the greatest gift I think for all of
03:43us to be able to like grow up on set and experience and work with such talented
03:48people every day and then go back to a more normal life and I went back to home
03:52school and then I was just kind of like not in the loop of what was cool I
03:57didn't I wasn't on trend and I was like I don't have to like go in a tank and be
04:01underwater

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