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Zoe Saldaña opens up about the powerful and emotionally draining experience of portraying Neytiri, discussing the character's challenging arc and the relief of leaving the role's weight behind at the end of each day.
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00:00And let's face it, the tears are racist, and she just, and she loses sight because of this blind fury
00:06that she has.
00:07She loses sight that the person that she loves the most and respects the most in her life is her
00:13husband.
00:13And he is human, he's a sky person, and I think it takes a lot of courage for Jake to
00:20be honest with her.
00:21And to force her, even knowing that she is broken, that he knows that she needs to face this because
00:30he sees in the direction that she's heading.
00:32And I think it's much more familiar to him where Nateri is heading than for Nateri herself.
00:39So it was powerful, and I think that we really needed to go there.
00:43But I can't tell you enough how great it was to also take her off every evening and just put
00:52her on the side and just go home without her weight on me.
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