{"id":206460,"date":"2025-12-23T07:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/206460\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T07:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:27:07","slug":"sigourney-weaver-addresses-age-gap-concerns-over-avatar-fire-and-ash-kiss-scene-avatar-fire-and-ash-jack-champion-sigourney-weaver-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/206460\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigourney Weaver Addresses Age Gap Concerns Over \u2018Avatar: Fire and Ash\u2019 Kiss Scene | avatar: fire and ash, Jack Champion, Sigourney Weaver | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/sigourney-weaver\/\" title=\"Sigourney Weaver\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sigourney Weaver<\/a> is shedding some light on the complicated nature of her on-screen romance in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/avatar-fire-and-ash\/\" title=\"Avatar Fire And Ash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Avatar: Fire and Ash<\/a> involving a much younger actor.<\/p>\n<p>The actress originally played scientist Grace Augustine in the first Avatar movie, but her character died. In Avatar: Way of the Water, it was revealed that Grace\u2019s avatar was used to clone Jake Sully and Neytiri\u2019s adopted daughter Kiri, a 14-year-old hybrid.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out more\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>Kiri gets a romantic storyline in Avatar: Fire and Ash as she bonds with the character Spider, played by Jack Champion. There is a scene where Kiri and Spider kiss and some have voiced discomfort with the significant age gap between the two actors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously I wasn\u2019t going to kiss Jack, who was 14 or 15, in real life,\u201d Sigourney explains to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/avatar-fire-and-ash-sigourney-weaver-feature-1236455076\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/avatar-fire-and-ash-sigourney-weaver-feature-1236455076\/&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> in a new interview. \u201cWe asked Jack to pick someone I could kiss and he did. Then I imagine when I wasn\u2019t there, they picked someone appropriate for Jack.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>She notes that the concern was \u201clegitimate\u201d and so they made an effort to handle it the situation with care off-screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m glad the scene survived, because when I saw it, I believed it. It\u2019s so genuine between the two of them and any concern about Jack\u2019s real age and my real age, I think there\u2019s no room for it there,\u201d the Alien actress added.<\/p>\n<p>But she also clarified that outside of that scene, it really was her and Jack acting alongside one another.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/12\/avengers-doomsday-reportedly-has-four-different-trailers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Everything you need to know about how to see all of the Avengers: Doomsday trailers.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sigourney Weaver is shedding some light on the complicated nature of her on-screen romance in Avatar: Fire and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-206460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}