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Spider sticks out like a sore thumb, but he embraces all of the Na’vi traditions and wants nothing more than to be welcomed by all of his blue allies. Of course, that kind of acceptance doesn’t happen overnight, so Spider bides his time by making friends with another outcast, Kiri, a Na’vi born from an Avatar body. The Sully family takes her in as well, and she and Spider bond over being different than everyone else. They get so close, in fact, that they start a romantic relationship, which works fine from a story standpoint.
But things get awkward when the curtain is pulled back and reveals a character played by 76-year-old Sigourney Weaver sharing a kiss with a character played by 21-year-old Jack Champion, who was much younger when he originally filmed his scenes for Fire and Ash. Weaver has shut down the idea of any funny business happening on set, though, revealing to The Hollywood Reporter that the production found a solution to their problem.
“That scene where I say, ‘You’re perfect just as you are,’ we had to be very delicate about that scene because it included a kiss,” she said. “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. 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. And I’m glad the scene survived, because when I saw it, I believed it. It’s so genuine between the two of them, and any concern about Jack’s real age and my real age, I think there’s no room for it there.”
