Avatar 2 Interview: Bailey Bass & Jamie Flatters on Tsireya & Neteyam

The moon of Pandora has welcomed a number of new faces since 2009’s Avatar. In the years between the first film and James Cameron’s highly-anticipated sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, Jake (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) adopted Sigourney Weaver's Kiri and had three children of their own including Neteyam playing by Jamie Flatters (The School for Good and Evil). In The Way of Water, the «sky people» return to Pandora after over a decade of peace. This time around, they don't just want Pandora's resources. They want to colonize the entire moon. When Jake specifically is targeted as a hurdle in achieving that goal, his family is forced to seek refuge in the reef village of the Metkayina clan. That's where Flatters' Neteyam, Jake and Neytiri’s eldest son, meets Bailey Bass' character, Tsireya, the daughter of the Metkayina leaders, Ronal (Kate Winslet) and Tonowari (Cliff Curtis). Whereas some of the locals take to bullying the Sullys, Tsireya accepts her assignment to teach Neteyam and the other Sully children the Metkayina ways with patience and grace. Before The Way of Water's theatrical release on December 16th, Collider’s own Perri Nemiroff was able to sit down with Flatters and Bass to talk about their experience working on the film. With so much time having passed since filming began, Bass reflects on playing Tsireya and how much she’s grown as an actress. Bass also discusses what she learned from her on-screen mom, Kate Winslet, while Flatters recalls a...