Sigourney Weaver Didn’t Have an Age Gap Kiss in Avatar 3

Contains a mild spoiler for Avatar: Fire and Ash.

CGI can be incredible. One day, you’re watching Avatar: Fire and Ash, and you see a Na’vi who sounds just like Sigourney Weaver on the screen, and just like that, she’s a teenager once again. What can’t James Cameron do? For the third Avatar movie, Cameron used CGI technology to make the then 72-year-old actress into a blue alien named Kiri. Still, in their quest for cinematic greatness, they forgot one thing: teenagers are horny. Kiri falls in love with Spider (Jack Champion), a human teenager living in Pandora, and they share a kiss. But wait! An actual teen played Spider; Champion was between 14 and 16 when they filmed Avatar 2 & 3. Thankfully, Cameron and Weaver thought of everything.

Weaver shared how the team was able to film the scene appropriately to THR. “Obviously I wasn’t going to kiss Jack, who was 14 or 15, in real life. We asked Jack to pick someone I could kiss and he did,” she explained. “Then I imagine when I wasn’t there, they picked someone appropriate for Jack. That concern about all of that, which is quite legitimate, was going on.” She also celebrated Kiri and Spider’s relationship in the movie and how the two are the perfect examples of “mismatched” romance that still works. She added, “I don’t know how tall I’m supposed to be, like 6’4, and he’s what, 5’8 or something, and I tower over him — and you can really see it in the film. Being a tall woman myself, height doesn’t matter at all. I love that we’re mismatched. It’s perfect.”