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Gordon Cormier, star of Netflix's 'Avatar: The Last Airbender,' discusses his acting process for the emotional scene where Aang loses Appa. He explains that after years of building the bond between the two, tapping into the rage and despair wasn't difficult.
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00:00So when that one thing got taken away from him, it wasn't too difficult to tap into the rage, it
00:05was just like, I feel like it was just, it was a lot of preparation I feel like it took,
00:10because like, over the past, like, few years, or at least it took to like, shoot season one, then our
00:16little break, and then starting to shoot season two, I've just been building this relationship with Appa, so when all
00:21of that got taken away, it actually wasn't that difficult to imagine how heartbreaking it was, because I've already established
00:26how much Aang loves Appa.
00:28Like, it truly is his best friend, and the only thing that he has left definitely required preparation, but the
00:33preparation almost did itself, because the way that we shot the show, and how we shot the show.

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