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At the 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' premiere in Los Angeles, Stephen Lang chats with THR and shares the best part about playing a villain. Plus, he reveals why he doesn't believe this is the last 'Avatar' film.

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00:00You filmed this movie so long ago, what was it like watching it for the first time?
00:03Were there things you'd forgotten about?
00:05Yeah, kind of, I suppose it would be a trip down memory lane,
00:09except the film itself is just so exciting that, you know,
00:13you kind of stay in the moment of the movie.
00:16That's why I'm looking forward to seeing it again this evening
00:19because it's a lot of movie to take in at one time.
00:24But as you say, we did it, it's a while ago that we did it,
00:28but it's never, I've been involved in it every day in some way since then, you know,
00:34even if it's only kind of ruminating on it myself.
00:38But we've all been in close contact.
00:40There's been a lot of work to be done to bring us to this evening.
00:44What's the best part about playing a villain?
00:47Well, people love villains, you know, because we're, it's good to be bad.
00:54You might say that.
00:56And so much of the time, it's fun to, it's fun to defy people's expectations as well.
01:04That they, you know, anyone who thinks that Korich is sort of a mustache twirling, you know, bad guy,
01:12I think is in for an awakening.
01:13You know, he's a deeply flawed character, but he's also, there's a lot of contour to him as well.
01:20James Cameron has recently said that this could be the last Avatar movie, depending on how it does.
01:27Do you think it will be?
01:28No, I'm not, no, I don't.
01:31I'm, first of all, I'm an optimist by nature, but also, I just don't, I don't, there's so much more saga to tell.
01:40And I know, I know how deeply invested Jim Cameron is in this story, in these families that are in this film.
01:52So, I think there can be a break, but we've done that before, we've taken long breaks.
01:58But, you know, in the words of a great, great American,
02:02We'll be back.
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