"That got a little misreported" James Cameron has confirmed that Michelle Yeoh will not star in Avatar: Fire and Ash . In 2021, late producer Jon Landau shared a photo on social media of Yeoh on the set of the third Avatar film , which led fans to believe that Yeoh would appear in the upcoming film. It is worth noting that Cameron filmed Avatar: Fire and Ash and the currently untitled A vatar 4 concurrently with 2022’s Avatar: The Way Of Water .
Now, Cameron has cleared the air, confirming that Yeoh – who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 2023 for her role in Everything Everywhere All At Once – will not be in the third instalment of the franchise. Cameron said to Entertainment Tonight : “Michelle Yeoh won’t be in 3. She’s in 4 and 5.
So that got a little bit misreported. She will be coming in soon to do her part, which is an interesting, fun character.” Michelle Yeoh, winner of the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’, in Beverly Hills, California on March 12 2023.
CREDIT: Getty/Photo by Michael TRAN / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images He continued, explaining how filming for the franchise is planned out: “I mean, we’re getting ahead of ourselves now. This whole thing has been planned for years and years. The scripts were all written years ago, through the end of movie 5.
So we’ve been working on parts of 4 even as we go along, mostly because we’ve got this young cast. We had to shoot them al.