The actress, 76, is now clarifying whether she actually kissed her costar, Jack Champion, who is 21 now but was between 14 and 16 while playing Spider.<\/p>\n
“That scene where I say, ‘You’re perfect just as you are,’\u00a0we had to be very delicate about that scene because it included a kiss,” Weaver told\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. “Obviously, I wasn’t going to kiss Jack, who was 14 or 15, in real life.”<\/p>\n Weaver originally played adult human scientist Grace Augustine in James Cameron<\/a>‘s first Avatar film, before the character’s onscreen death. She returned in the sequels Avatar: The Way of Water and Avatar: Fire and Ash as Kiri, the teenage Na’vi-Avatar hybrid cloned from Grace’s avatar, who was adopted into the Sully clan by Jake (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Salda\u00f1a).<\/p>\n Jesse Grant\/Getty; Axelle\/Bauer-Griffin\/FilmMagic<\/p>\n Sigourney Weaver and Jack Champion<\/p>\n In the third film (now playing in theaters), Kiri and teen human Spider \u2014 the biological son of Stephen Lang’s Quaritch \u2014 grow closer, and ultimately share a kiss during a romantic scene.<\/p>\n Weaver revealed that when it came to that scene in particular, she and filmmaker Cameron, 71, asked Champion “to pick someone I could kiss and he did. Then I imagine when I wasn’t there, they picked someone appropriate for Jack.”<\/p>\n She felt that filming the scene separately, with age-appropriate actors standing in for each other, helped keep it all above board, which was top of mind for all involved.<\/p>\n “That concern about all of that, which is quite legitimate, was going on,” she promised. “And I\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.”<\/p>\n Weaver went on to confirm that the kiss was the only time she and Champion filmed separately.<\/p>\n “It was only that one moment,” she said. “It was like a little vacation whenever we had a scene [together] because we’re frolicking. It’s kind of a time off for me because she’s so deliriously happy; she enjoys his company so much. I don’t know how tall I’m supposed to be, like 6’4, and he’s what, 5’8 or something, and I tower over him \u2014 and you can really see it in the film. Being a tall woman myself, height doesn’t matter at all. I love that we’re mismatched. It’s perfect.”<\/p>\n Speaking with Entertainment Weekly previously, Champion described his experience filming Spider’s romantic relationship with Weaver’s Kiri as “unique.”<\/p>\n “I’ve been asked, ‘Is it difficult?'” Champion told EW. “But since Sigourney is Sigourney, she’s so good at acting, and we’re literally in a performance-capture Volume where it’s gray. We know that our imagination is our main weapon. So when she’s acting, it is very unique, but it was so easy ’cause she’s such a good actress. I just reacted off her. So, I guess, it wasn’t that hard, and it wasn’t insane after the first couple days.”<\/p>\n Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with\u00a0our\u00a0EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n The young actor remembered how he and Weaver had instant chemistry, even in the screen test where they first met.<\/p>\n “I think we maybe had one scripted scene, but then for the next like 30 minutes, Sigourney and I just literally riffed,” he said. “We really just used our imagination, and it was fun. Really, since the very beginning, Sigourney and I have been so locked in imaginatively that I’ve always been able see Sigourney, then see Kiri.”<\/p>\n![\"Jesse](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a6d36b6c03d5809bf7250636d6b2e7f2.jpeg\"\/)
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