Michelle Rodríguez didn’t want to rise from the dead again

For the second part of his successful film “Avatar – Aufbruch nach Pandora” (2009) James Cameron apparently not only wanted to revive Stephen Lang’s character, “Colonel Miles Quaritch”, but also Michelle Rodríguez’ character Trudy Chacón. Both died at the end of the first film. Rodriguez, however, to whom he had approached with the offer before the start of production, decided against it.

In an interview, she cited both the structure of the actual story and a trend that runs through a number of her roles as reasons. “You can’t do that. I died a martyr,” she told Cameron. In addition, there could have been a strange déjà vu moment that would have broken the immersion.

Dead three times, risen three times

Rodríguez’s characters have been killed-and-revived in three different franchises throughout their careers. “I came back in Resident Evil. That shouldn’t have happened. I came back in Machete. That shouldn’t have happened. I came back as “Letty” (“Fast & Furious”). That shouldn’t have happened. A fourth time is not possible, that would be too much.”

In the case of “Machete” (2010), it seems as if this was intended as a plot device. Apparent death and return of her character “Luz” occur in the same film. It was her first return, the beginning of this trend. In both other instances there is at least one film between the death and reintroduction of their character. Includes amnesia (“Fast & Furious”) and cloning (“Resident Evil”) as explanations.

James Cameron, who for Avatar: The Way of Water also brought back Sigourney Weaver after the death of her role in the first film, along with the aforementioned Lang, put both of them in Na’Vi bodies. However, Weaver played her own daughter “Kiri”.

However, the 44-year-old was able to concentrate on her role in the current reboot of the “Dungeons & Dragons” films. “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” has been in German cinemas since Thursday (March 30).

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