The stars of Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender are looking back at the 2010 film by M. Night Shyamalan.Soon set to start streaming on Netflix, the new series serves as the second live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, as filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan previously released a feature film version in 2010. Shyamalan’s movie was heavily panned upon release, and it holds an abysmal 5% score at Rotten Tomatoes. At the Los Angeles premiere of the Netflix show on Thursday, some of the cast members addressed the maligned Shyamalan film with THR. Katara actor Kiawentiio was honest about her disappointment as a fan of the original series, admitting that she looked at the movie as an example of what not to do with the Netflix adaptation.”I did watch it, you know? It’s been dragged through the mud a lot, and I get it, as a fan I understand it,” added Uncle Iron actor Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, pointing to the controversial choice of having white actors playing originally Asian roles. “The casting is something that didn’t sit well with me either and it was painful, in that sense. Not that the actors were bad, I’m not saying that. Nobody sets off to do a bad adaptation, nobody sets off to offend an entire fan base, but I think decisions were made that didn’t quite sit well.”
The stars of Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender are looking back at the 2010 film by M. Night Shyamalan.
Soon set to start streaming on Netflix, the new series serves as the second live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, as filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan previously released a feature film version in 2010. Shyamalan’s movie was heavily panned upon release, and it holds an abysmal 5% score at Rotten Tomatoes. At the Los Angeles premiere of the Netflix show on Thursday, some of the cast members addressed the maligned Shyamalan film with THR. Katara actor Kiawentiio was honest about her disappointment as a fan of the original series, admitting that she looked at the movie as an example of what not to do with the Netflix adaptation.
“I did watch it, you know? It’s been dragged through the mud a lot, and I get it, as a fan I understand it,” added Uncle Iron actor Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, pointing to the controversial choice of having white actors playing originally Asian roles. “The casting is something that didn’t sit well with me either and it was painful, in that sense. Not that the actors were bad, I’m not saying that. Nobody sets off to do a bad adaptation, nobody sets off to offend an entire fan base, but I think decisions were made that didn’t quite sit well.”
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