Sigourney Weaver shares more details on Avatar: The Way of Water

There’s surprising news about Sigourney Weaver’s role in the upcoming Avatar sequel.

As revealed in Empire’s upcoming world-exclusive Avatar: The Way Of Water issue, Sigourney Weaver is playing an entire new character in this film. Instead of playing Dr. Grace Augustine, Sigourney Weaver is returning to play a Na’Vi character named Kiri and she’s the adopted teenage daughter of Jake and Neytiri.

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While the reveal of Weaver’s role brings up all kinds of other questions about The Way Of Water, we will need to wait to see more details about the plot.

James Cameron’s first follow-up to his “Avatar,” the highest-grossing film of all time, will open in theaters on December 16. Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, “Avatar: The Way of Water” begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.

Directed by James Cameron and produced by Cameron and Jon Landau, the film stars Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, Jemaine Clement and Kate Winslet. To whet audiences’ appetites, the studio will re-release “Avatar” in 4K for theaters on September 23.

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