The Surprising Reason Edie Falco Thought Avatar Was a Flop

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Despite appearing successful the movie, Edie Falco thought Avatar: The Way of Water had already travel retired a portion ago. Keep speechmaking to find retired the comic crushed she thought the movie was a flop.

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For a infinitesimal there, Edie Falco didn't deliberation radical wanted to spell backmost to Pandora.

While Avatar is 1 of the highest grossing films of each time, the Sopranos prima precocious admitted that she thought Avatar: The Way of Water had already travel out—and was simply a monolithic flop. But the actress, who stars successful the recently released follow-up to the 2009 film, has a bully explanation.

"The 2nd Avatar, the 1 that's coming out, I deliberation I changeable 4 years ago," Edie shared connected The View on Dec. 16. "And I'm busy and doing stuff, and idiosyncratic mentioned Avatar, and I thought, 'Oh, I conjecture it came retired and didn't bash precise well. It happens.'"

"And past idiosyncratic precocious said, 'Avatar is coming out,'" she continued. "'Oh, it hasn't travel retired yet? I haven't seen the caller one, truthful I'm excited.'"

And the Nurse Jackie actress, 59, joked that "she'd ne'er enactment again" for thinking Avatar had travel retired and tanked. 

In The Way of Water, Edie plays General Ardmore, 1 of the fewer humans successful the film, which she noted was a spot of a disappointment for her.

"Well, I wanted to beryllium blue," she explained. "I was excited–I was going to beryllium bluish and precise tall…I didn't get either of those things."

And truthful far, the movie is acold from a flop, pulling successful $134 cardinal astatine the container bureau domestically, the fourth-biggest opening of the year. All this with 13 years betwixt Avatar and its sequel.

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But fans won't person to hold that agelong to spot Sam Worthington's Jake Sully and Zoe Saldaña's Neytiri again arsenic manager James Cameron has already filmed the 3rd Avatar movie with plans for a 4th and 5th movie underway.

And Zoe precocious shared her thoughts astir the Avatar manager and immoderate absorbing casting ideas for future Avatar films.

"Jim is known for being precise loyal," she told E! News. "He works with the aforesaid radical implicit and implicit again. He did it with Linda Hamilton, helium did it with Sigourney Weaver with Kate Winslet, with [me and Sam]. It would beryllium absorbing if helium brought back Ed Harris or Leonardo DiCaprio and what benignant of characters they'd play successful Pandora. It would beryllium wholly awesome."

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