Before Avatar: Fire and Ash, Jack Champion starred in another blockbuster film. The actor has now opened up on that very special cameo appearance.
The star returned in the third installment of James Cameron’s fantasy epic as Spider, a human teenager living on Pandora.
The film, in cinemas now, sees Spider become an “air breather”, meaning he is able to survive in Pandora’s atmosphere without a mask, after Kiri (Sigourney Weaver) connects him to Eywa, fully immersing him in the Na’vi world.
But before we were introduced to Spider, the Scream VI actor appeared in Avengers: Endgame as “Kid on Bike” in a scene where Paul Rudd’s character, Scott Lang, emerges from the Quantum Realm.
It’s a blink and you’ll miss it moment, but it was a huge moment in Champion’s career as well as the first time he appeared alongside Avatar co-star Zoe Saldana.
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He told Entertainment Weekly: “Endgame is one of those movies that I feel like everyone was a part of in some way or another, like the whole cast and crew of all of Hollywood.
“I’m just blessed that I got to dip my toe in that pond and say I was a part of it. I went to the cast and crew screening of Endgame in LA, and Zoe [Saldana] literally called the host of that and gave me a shoutout. She was like, ‘Hey, shoutout to my cast mate Jack! ‘Kid on Bike.’ That was hilarious.”
He continued: “Although, we recently did some little game for the internet, and she forgot that I was in Endgame. It was like, ‘Which franchise has Jack not been a part of?’ And she was like, ‘I don’t think he’s been part of Marvel.’ Then she immediately remembered, and she was like, ‘I’m so sorry!'”
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Opening up on the audition process, he revealed that he only auditioned once after sending in a self-tape, and he was called about the role a month later.
On whether people are shocked he appeared in the Marvel franchise, he added: “They’re always surprised, but then, to my surprise, there’s always a look of recognition. ‘Oh yeah! Kid on Bike.’ And I’m like, ‘Wait! You still recognize me?’
“You see this on the 12-year-old Beaver-[hair]cut ‘Kid on bike’? The amount of people that do still remember once I tell them is surprising.”
Avatar: Fire and Ash is in cinemas now
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