Has anyone in the wider Avatar -verse had as wild a ride as Sigourney Weaver? In James Cameron’s 2009 original , she played human scientist Grace Augustine, who perished before the credits rolled. But then, in Avatar: The Way Of Water , she returned in hugely surprising form – as Na’vi teenager Kiri , a seemingly miraculous conception birthed from Grace’s avatar, with Weaver donning performance-capture to play a 14-year-old. That film teased a bigger destiny for Kiri, who has a peculiar connection to the sprawling flora and fauna of Pandora – and it sounds like there’ll be much more to come in Avatar: Fire And Ash .

The film, Weaver tells Empire in a major new interview, is a darker outing than the previous sequel, as our heroes face new Na’vi antagonist, Varang . “There

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