Sigourney Weaver talks Cameron’s Avatar
Hollywood Newsroom is now Buzz Newsroom! Visit and bookmark our new site. Buzz is bigger and better, including sports, world news, gadgets and the entertainment news that you're used to. Same staff, just more stuff! Why Fark, Drudge and Huffington when you can Buzz!?When it comes to bad-ass babes in cinema history, well, there’s Ellen Ripley, the take no prisoners heroin at the center of “Alien” and its three sequels, and then there’s everybody else.
But if anyone could match her, it would have to be the tag-team of James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver, back together again on the 3-D extravaganza “Avatar,” right? Could Dr. Grace Augustine be a Ripley for the 21st century?
At least one person doesn’t think so. Too bad that one person is Weaver herself.
“There’s not too much Ripley [in her]. The only thing they have in common is they devoted their lives to this other thing,” the veteran actress recently told MTV News. “I think [Grace] probably would have liked a normal life but she had to make a choice and she chose science.”
Ok, yeah, but it’s a Cameron film. That means even eggheads get into a little action – and Doc Augustine is no exception, Weaver confessed, revealing that she’s front and center for a lot of butt-kicking.
“She has an avatar. She’s very involved,” Weaver teased. “[In fact,] I would say her real life is as an avatar.”
Via MTV