ZOE SALDAÑA
Back into the blue
They thought it would take about six years to make the sequel to the world’s biggest film, Avatar. It took 12. It’s here at last, and actress Zoe Saldaña couldn’t be happier reprising her role as Neytiri in the blockbuster gamechanger.
Since becoming the highest-grossing film of all time back in 2009, has polarised viewers. Audiences span the spectrum of obsessives fascinated by its next-gen technical achievements and tall blue digital aliens, to haters deeming it a rip-off, trying to square the film’s chart-topping box office receipts with its supposedly non-existent cultural impact. But there’s great irony to forgetting just how groundbreaking the beautiful blue moon of Pandora really was, with its lush forests (initially) untouched by human destruction. remains a massively ambitious anti-imperialist and ecologically concerned blockbuster. As a warning about climate change, director James Cameron knew that to get people to care for the world he had to show a vision of nature and community in all its beauty.
