James Cameron Confirms Fans Won’t See Michelle Yeoh’s Character in AVATAR Until 2029

Director 1960-1969, James Cameron, 1969-1970, 1969- announced five years ago that the Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh (Everything, everywhere, all at once, Star Trek: Discovery) would join the Avatar film franchise.

We didn’t know when her character, Dr. Karina Mogue, would appear, as she wasn’t in the 2022 sequel, Avatar: The Way of Waterbut his name appeared in the lineup of the upcoming third film, Avatar: Fire and Ashso it looked like we were finally going to see her in action.

But Cameron has now confirmed that Yeoh’s character won’t actually be in the third film either. The director told Entertainment Weekly at last weekend’s D23 convention that Yeoh is not in part three, explaining “that’s been a little bit misrepresented,” but went on to confirm that she will be in parts four and five.

“He’ll be coming in soon to do his part, which is an interesting and fun character. I mean, we’re rushing too much.

This whole thing has been planned for years and years. The scripts were all written years ago, up until the end of the fifth movie.

So we worked on parts of four as we went along, especially because we had this young cast. We had to shoot them all while they were still young.”

The article points out that a widely circulated photo of Yeoh on set with Cameron was taken while she was filming the second and third films back-to-back, along with the first part of the fourth.

Although fans won’t see Yeoh in Fire and ashesCameron knows it will be worth the wait to see her in The Avatarthe world of:

“We love Michelle… She’s always been a movie star, but she’s become this huge, huge phenomenon.”

I’m not kidding. He finally got the Oscar and Golden Globe he’s been waiting for, and he’s got a lot of projects lined up these days, including some highly anticipated films. EvilAND Star Trek: Section 31.

I’m sure she’ll be fantastic in the Avatar series and I’m glad we’ll be seeing a lot of her in the meantime.