Michelle Rodriguez Won't Let James Cameron Put Her In 'Avatar' Sequels: It's 'Overkill' To Come Back From The Dead

Most actors would jump at the chance to star in sequels to the highest-grossing movie of them all the temperature. Michelle Rodriguez is clearly not most actors. The 'Fast & Furious' favorite she told James Cameron he couldn't bring his 'Avatar' character back from the dead because it's already happened three times in his career. A fourth time would be "overkill," Rodriguez told the hit filmmaker.

Rodriguez debuted "Avatar" in Cameron's 2009 original. She played Trudy Chacón, a fighter pilot working for the Avatar program who is sympathetic to the Na'vi. Trudy sacrifices her life in battle to ensure the Na'vi prevail against the evil humans trying to take control of Pandora.

"Man, when I saw Jim [Cameron] recently, he was like, 'I thought , "What if Michelle came back? A lot of other characters came back [in 'The Way of the Water']." "I was like, 'You can't do this, I'm a martyr.'"

Rodriguez then listed all the times his dead characters were brought back, telling Cameron, "I Came back in 'Resident Evil' I wasn't supposed to Came back in 'Machete' I wasn't supposed to Came back in 'Letty' I wasn't supposed to We can't do a fourth [time], that would be overkill!"

"I don't understand, it's so weird," Rodriguez said of the coming many of his dead characters come back to life. "I guess they don't know what to do with the girl who doesn't have a boyfriend. 'She doesn't have a boyfriend. Should we keep her alive or kill her?'

To refuse "Avatar" means to refuse one of the greatest franchises in the history of cinema. Without adjusting for inflation, the original "Avatar" still ranks as the highest-grossing film of all time worldwide with a total gross of $2.9 billion. The sequel, "Avatar: The Way of the Water," was released 13 years later and defied box office predictions with $2.3 billion, making it the third-highest-grossing movie ever. story.

Rodriguez is preparing for a big first half of 2023 thanks to the releases of "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (opening March 31 from Paramount) and "Fast X" (May from Universal Pictures)

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