Even earlier than her Oscar win for Every little thing In all places All at As soon as, we had been within the midst of a Michelle Yeoh increase time. Fortunate for us, that’s not going to finish anytime quickly. Whereas the primary Depraved is hitting theaters this fall, Star Trek: Part 31 is arriving on Paramount+ early subsequent yr, and Prime Video’s Blade Runner 2099 is now in manufacturing, one other high-profile Yeoh undertaking—her involvement in James Cameron’s blockbuster Avatar franchise—is additional away than we thought.

That’s as a result of Yeoh’s character isn’t truly going to look within the third movie, whose title was lately confirmed as Avatar: Hearth and Ash. She’ll as an alternative debut within the fourth movie, which is due in 2029—a full decade after her casting as a scientist named Dr. Karina Mogue was introduced again in 2019.

This tidbit was confirmed by at least James Cameron himself, who instructed Leisure Weekly on the D23 conference that Yeoh isn’t partly three—”that acquired a bit bit misreported”—although she’s going to certainly be in components 4 and 5.

“She might be coming in quickly to do her half, which is an attention-grabbing, enjoyable character,” Cameron mentioned. “I imply, we’re getting forward of ourselves now. This entire factor has been deliberate for years and years. The scripts had been all written years in the past, via the top of film 5. So we’ve been engaged on components of 4 whilst we go alongside, largely as a result of we’ve acquired this younger solid. We needed to shoot all of them whereas they had been nonetheless younger.”

The EW article notes {that a} broadly circulated photograph of Yeoh on set with Cameron was taken whereas Avatar was filming its second and third entries again to again, together with the primary a part of the fourth, exactly due to these quickly getting old younger stars. However although followers gained’t see Yeoh in Hearth and Ash, Cameron is aware of it’ll be definitely worth the wait to see her in Avatar‘s world: “We love Michelle … She was all the time a film star, however she’s blown up into an enormous, enormous phenomenon.”

Avatar: Hearth and Ash opens December 19, 2025.

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