Oona Chaplin, the Madrid actress from ‘Avatar 3’, compares her mythical grandfather to James Cameron

Oona Chaplin es Varang en Avatar 3a character who gives darkness to one of the most anticipated movies of the yearwhich opens in theaters this Friday to continue a saga with which James Cameron achieves something “very similar” to his mythical grandfather, the actress tells EFE: uniting all viewers.

Avatar: Fire and Ash It lasts 3:17 hours and like the two previous installments it can be enjoyed with 3D technology and without scenes generated by artificial intelligence. Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña repeat as Sully and Neytiri in this fantastic, epic and environmentalist fable that now presents the People of Ashes, a Na’vi clan led by Oona Chaplin that uses violence to achieve its objectives.

«I have reflected a lot on how similar James Cameron is to Charlie Chaplin, because They are both technology pioneers.each one with what he had at his disposal. But also They are both storytellers. “that focus extremely on the heart and the human condition,” says the actress born in Madrid 39 years ago. daughter of Geraldine and the Chilean photographer Patricio Castilla.

After spending her childhood in Cuba, Switzerland and London, the granddaughter of Charles Chaplin and great-granddaughter of the playwright Eugene O’Neill has participated in such famous series as Game of Thrones. Her villainous role in Avatar: Fire and Ash has approached the director of Titanicwhose similarities with the creator of ‘Charlot’ stand out.

«Charlie Chaplin made the whole world cry and laugh and it united us in feeling, which is something that at the time seemed impossible. But James Cameron, with Avatar Above all, he has done something similar with the inspiration and the desire to be blue,” he says about the color of the heroes of these films, which generate empathy in millions of people “of all ages, cultures, political inclinations,” he emphasizes.

That bluish tone of the Na’vi, the inhabitants of Pandora threatened by humans since the first installment of the science fiction saga in 2009, becomes rather grayish in the case of the fierce and dangerous tribal leader that Chaplin plays.

«I never saw her as evil. For me it was an exercise to discover what his driving force is, what his motives are,” says the actress, who highlights qualities in Varang such as determination and integrity that have helped her personally, the interpreter confesses.

«It has a very powerful intention. “When she focuses on something she is unstoppable,” remarks Chaplin, convinced that Varang is actually very similar to the heroine Neytiri, “but she has had to close her heart because she has suffered a trauma that she has not yet been able to overcome,” she says, leaving open a possible evolution of her character.

Asked about the similarities between Varang and Malinche, an indigenous woman who was crucial in the conquest of Mexico as interpreter, advisor and lover of Hernán Cortés, Chaplin welcomes the comparison.

«This is one of the characters that I want to play in my life. It would be so incredible because it is a story just as complex as Cleopatra’s was,” he points out about these historical figures who somehow found themselves involved in great betrayals.

Chaplin recalls the scene in which the invader Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) provides weapons to Varang and his people. «It shocked me, because I had almost forgotten, eight years ago I filmed it, and it is something that is happening now and has happened so many times, that machine guns end up in the hands of children. The United States at this moment is arming Ukraine and everywhere,” he laments.

With this new delivery, James Cameron seeks to repeat the success of the first two films: the original from 2009, which is the highest grossing in the history of cinema, with 2,490 million euros, and the one from 2019, The sense of wateris in third position, with about 2,000 million.