The actress referred to the subject, during a conversation in the dashboard Avatar 2: The Water Sense at the CCXP in Brazil. For Zoe Saldaña, Neytiri’s new maturity is more than just a look at the different facets of a growing character. At the same time, it is a journey through the way in which motherhood and new responsibilities, They bring a new perspective on the world to the warrior. A journey of enormous interest to explore how time endowed the Na’vi with a new identity and made it a more complex figure in history.
“When you are young, you are not afraid. You say yes to every challenge and you jump right in, you learn it and you don’t even care about the consequences. When you become a parent, the idea of losing something you love more than you love yourself is unimaginable,” explained the actress. “So that kind of fear has entered Neytiri (…) but these children are powerful. They’re just gorgeous, because they’re Neytiri’s and Jake’s. So we’re going to experience Pandora and her oceans of her through her eyes. We are going to do it all for the first time, because for children, it is. It’s really beautiful.”
A key character in the ‘Avatar’ universe
Avatar 2: The Water Sense it takes place a decade after the events narrated in the 2009 film. Therefore, it is a completely new perspective on the story. In particular, by delving into what happened after the shocking end point of the well-known plot. As will be remembered, Jake Sully managed bring his consciousness to the artificial avatar he had occupied until then. Which made him, finally, a full member of the Na’vi tribe. However, beyond that, he also opened up the possibility that he could start a family with Neytiri. Which, in the end, seems to have happened.
For Saldaña, the fact that the warrior is a mother in this chapter of history, adds complexity and depth to your experience. Pandora is a planet full of challenges. But beyond that, its inhabitants are linked in a fundamental and biological way with its ecosystem. So being a mother becomes, according to the actress, a total experience. One that also encompasses various levels of experience and an organic connection to everything that happens in Neytiri’s life. In particular, in his way of understanding her children.
The interpreter explained that she understood Neytiri’s evolution through her “understanding of her ability to protect those she loves.” A point that also allows the warrior take on a new point of view towards what you want to do and how you want to fight in the future. As he commented, for his character it is no longer about winning or dying, but about keeping those around him safe. Specifically, the children that she fathered together with Jake Sully and that, apparently, will form an essential part of the argument.
Avatar 2: The Water Sense offers new perspectives of Pandora
In Avatar 2: The Water Sense, the role of the family has become a fundamental point. In the original film, the tribe was the perception of the whole and the emotions that united the Na’vi with Pandora. Now the connection is much more subtle. For now, Cameron hasn’t fully explained what is the actual role of the couple’s children in the story. But the advances have made it clear that their parents are willing to fight to keep them safe.
What is clear in Avatar 2: The Water Sense, is that Jake and Neytiri have five children, three biological and two adopted. One of them, Miles “Spider” Socorro (Jack Champion), is a human child who was left behind when the RDA evacuated Pandora. In fact, there are conjectures that the little boy might have some link to Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), with whom he shares his name. Something that a brief look during D23 Expo seemed to confirm, by showing some sequences in which the character kidnaps the child.
The other little mystery in the family of Jake Sully and Neytiri, is Kiri, played by Sigourney Weaver. The actress, who in the previous film played Dr. Grace Augustine (and died in the story) returns to embody a Na’vi teenager. Now, there still isn’t much of an indication as to why Weaver is playing both characters.
It’s the perfect time to see Avatar before the premiere of the new film
It has been speculated that Avatar 2: The Water Sense it could be a new expression of life on Pandora. Even that the character confirms that in the mysterious ecosystem of the planet, nothing really dies. Lastly are Neteyam (Jamie Flatters), Lo’ak (Britain Dalton) and Tuktirey (Trinity Jo-Li Bliss), the couple’s biological children. Of any of them, very little is known. So that we will have to wait for the upcoming premiere of the film to understand its true place in history.