James Cameron: Pregnant 'Avatar' warrior is 'last bastion' of empowering women
The upcoming film picks up a decade from where the
with the story of the Sully clan training as warriors as they start a family — and Cameron chose to have Neytiri be pregnant.Variety’s Directors on Directors series. “But what is such a big part of a woman’s life that we, as men, don’t experience? And I thought, ‘Well, if you’re really going to go all the way down the rabbit hole of female empowerment, let’s have a female warrior who’s six months pregnant in battle.’ ”
The 68-year-old director explained that the character’s pregnancy is meant to break the stereotypes that expecting women are unfit and powerless and showcase a society in which women had to fight in order to survive.Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ review: The ingenious sequel we’ve been waiting for
“It doesn’t happen in our society — probably hasn’t happened for hundreds of years. But I guarantee you, back in the day, women had to fight for survival and protect their children, and it didn’t matter if they were pregnant. And pregnant women are more capable of being a lot more athletic than we, as a culture, acknowledge. I thought, ‘Let’s take the real boundaries off.’ To me, it was the last bastion that you don’t see,” he said.
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