Michelle Rodriguez has change into finest recognized for the badass girls she performs in iconic motion motion pictures, together with Letty within the Quick and Livid franchise, Rain in Resident Evil and Trudy in Avatar. One other widespread issue amongst all these characters is all of them died in considered one of their respective franchise’s motion pictures. Whereas Rodriguez’s characters got here again to life within the Quick and Livid motion pictures and Resident Evil, she revealed that she’s drawing the road with Avatar, saying she gained’t return to the franchise.
She makes a good level, there are solely so many instances a gal can die and are available again earlier than it turns into an excessive amount of. Rodriguez made this clear whereas speaking to Vainness Truthful, saying James Cameron was fascinated with bringing her character Trudy again to Pandora. She responded by saying she thinks her character ought to simply keep lifeless this time, recalling numerous moments all through her profession:
Dude, once I noticed Jim [Cameron] lately, he was like, ‘I used to be pondering, What if Michelle got here again? Plenty of the opposite characters got here again [in The Way of Water].’ I used to be like, ‘You’ll be able to’t do this—I died as a martyr. Jim, I got here again in Resident Evil, I wasn’t speculated to. I got here again in Machete, I wasn’t speculated to. I got here again with Letty, I wasn’t speculated to. We will’t do a fourth, that may be overkill!’ I don’t perceive, it’s so bizarre. I assume they don’t know what to do with the woman who doesn’t have a boyfriend. ‘She doesn’t have a boyfriend. Ought to we hold her alive, or kill her?’
Within the case of Avatar, Rodriguez’s character dies in a fiery airplane crash as she tries to assist the Navi’i combat the people. Not like Sigourney Weaver, the actress behind Trudy didn’t return as a brand new character, and he or she wasn’t a part of the Avatar: The Means of Water solid. I completely get the place Rodriguez is coming from, to have so a lot of her characters die and are available again to life is each random, and possibly a bit irritating. If Cameron wished the actress to remain within the franchise, perhaps the workforce ought to have listened to Turdy’s hope within the film when she stated:
I hoped for some kind of tactical plan that didn’t contain martyrdom.
Being a martyr in a film is cool and all, however for the second to take care of its which means, the character wants to remain lifeless. I do know once I watched Avatar for the primary time I used to be bummed Trudy died, however I additionally acknowledged the heroic sacrifice she made.
Nevertheless, I additionally love Michelle Rodriguez and would really like her to be in each installment of each franchise she’s been part of. For instance, it was epic to see her return to iconic roles like Letty, when she surprisingly got here again to life in Quick and Livid: 6. I do know once I watched the sixth Quick and Livid film for the primary time I assumed the actress gave her finest efficiency of the saga, and seeing her character return as a stronger extra outstanding individual within the saga was so thrilling. Though, there are solely so many instances you possibly can believably convey a personality again from the lifeless, and I feel this being the explanation for the actress not desirous to return to Avatar is comprehensible.
Together with not desirous to have one other character of hers unexpectedly come again to life, Rodriguez can be a particularly busy actress, who’s engaged on different franchise movies exterior of Avatar. On the 2023 film schedule alone she’s set to star in Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves, which hits theaters March 31, and he or she’ll return as Letty as a part of the Quick X solid on Might 19. So, whereas we could not see Michelle Rodriguez fly round Pandora once more, there’s lots to stay up for from the motion star, and you may all the time return and watch her as Trudy in Avatar with a Disney+ subscription.
