Sigourney Weaver’s love interest in Avatar: Fire and Ash is 55 years younger than her — which made the characters’ first romantic moment tricky.
“We had to be very delicate about that scene because it included a kiss,” Weaver, 76, told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published on Friday, December 20 of the encounter between her CGI-animated character, Na’vi teen Kiri, and the human character Spider, played by Jack Champion, now 21.
“Obviously I wasn’t going to kiss Jack, who was 14 or 15, in real life,” explained Weaver, who filmed the movie using motion-capture technology beginning in 2017.
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Instead, director James Cameron, 71, “asked Jack to pick someone I could kiss and he did. Then I imagine when I wasn’t there, they picked someone appropriate for Jack,” the Alien actress explained. “That concern about all of that, which is quite legitimate, was going on.”
When the scene was all put together in post-production, “I believed it,” she added. “It’s so genuine between the two of them and any concern about Jack’s real age and my real age, I think there’s no room for it there.”
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