Update: This Has Now Been Officially Announced By Netflix!

Update: This has now been officially announced by Netflix!

Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Zuko casting

Avatar News has your exclusive first look at the main cast of the live-action Netflix Original Series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Four fresh faces take center stage in four of the biggest roles in the world.

Filming begins in November 2021 in Vancouver and is set to last until May 2022.

Before I go any further, I want to acknowledge that this is monumentally huge news and for that reason I want to be completely transparent about the source. I’m willing to put my reputation behind this with 99.9% confidence, but it’s not official or confirmed by Netflix/anyone (yet).

Throughout the summer, crew positions have been filling up and casting calls have been taking place, corroborated and confirmed by multiple different avenues of legitimate industry sources. In the last few days, a lot of major gears have suddenly turned. Long story short, people are starting to follow each other on Instagram– actors, and confirmed crew members. After extensive research, I’m basically certain that four young actors who all started following each other, as well as following and being followed by various confirmed crew members, have been cast in the four main roles: Aang, Katara, Sokka, Zuko. The timelines match up, as do the casting calls.

For the record, here is a list of exactly who is following who at the time of writing this, and I want to repeat that again the crew members are confirmed by actual sources, not follows. (I also want to note that the lead actor of Netflix’s Shadow and Bone, Jessie Mei Li, has publicly confirmed in interviews that the cast for that series was guessed before it was announced by the same method: Instagram follows.)

And now, without further ado…

Gordon Cormier—Aang

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Age 12

Filipino-Canadian

From Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Best known for Netflix’s Lost in Space and Paramount+’s The Stand

You can find more pictures (and a video doing martial arts!) of Gordon Cormier here.

Kiawentiio—Katara

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Age 14

Indigenous North American - Mohawk

From Akwesasne, Ontario, Canada

Best known for CBC and Netflix’s Anne with an E

In an April 2021 interview, she said: “It would be a dream if I could work on Avatar: The Last Airbender. I’m dying to be Katara.”

You can find more pictures of Kiawentiio here.

Ian Ousley—Sokka

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Age 19

Indigenous North American - Cherokee

Best known for Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why and Apple TV+’s Physical

As mentioned above, there’s no publicly available background information for this young actor. The casting call for both Katara and Sokka called for Native American/Indigenous North American. He was cast to be the biological brother of Kiawentiio Tarbell’s character, and she’s indigenous Mohawk.

You can find more pictures of Ian Ousley here.

Dallas Liu—Zuko

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Age 19

Chinese-Indonesian-American

From Los Angeles, California, USA

Best known for Hulu’s PEN15 and Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (upcoming)

You can find more pictures of Dallas Liu here.

My deepest congratulations to these four young stars! Let’s welcome them with respect, and let’s be thoughtful about their privacy and mental health. Not just today, but for all the years ahead as they go on their epic quest to defeat the Fire Nation and bring balance to the world. :)

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NOW IS THE TIME TO STOP PIPELINE 3

I haven’t seen any mention of this on tumblr yet and it breaks my heart. Tribal nations, community and environmental groups in Minnesota have fought for six years to stop Canadian oil giant Enbridge Energy from building the massive Line 3 pipeline in Northern Minnesota, to take oil from Canada’s tar sands region to Superior, Wisconsin.

Pipeline 3 will have the Co2 equivalent of 15 new coal-fired power plants. Please stand strong against the law-free oil pipeline, which seeks to keep us tethered to destructive fossil fuel practices at the expense of the land, the sacred, and the livability of the future.

The Obvious Threats:

-Oil spills

-habitat destruction

-harm to indigenous livelihood

-climate damage

Its carbon footprint would exceed the entire state of Minnesota’s and, like Keystone XL, would extend the economic viability of the ultra-polluting crude oil source in a way that one expert famously called “game over for the climate.”   All pipelines spill. It’s a question of when not if.

Line 3 violates treaty rights by endangering critical cultural resources like sacred wild rice. Line 3 will cross 227 bodies of water including the Mississippi river twice and multiple state parks and national forests.

Pipeline construction also means bringing thousands of out-of-state workers into rural communities. These settlements are called man camps and they lead to missing and murdered indigenous women. Pipelines directly correlates to violence against indigenous women, girls, and relatives. Native women are murdered at 10 times the national rate; 1 out 2 Native women will be raped in her lifetime(based on REPORTED statistics), and 3 out of 5 physically assaulted. Even worse, 96% of the perpetrators are non-native and cannot be prosecuted by tribal governments. approving this landline it’s literally inviting violence into Indigenous spaces.

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

- take the pledge of resistance 

- donate directly to the front lines

- donate to Honor the Earth

- write to Biden to stop Line 3

- follow and listen to indigenous leadership

Sources:

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/expanding-the-line-3-tar-sands-pipeline-would-put-water-and-climate-at-risk/

https://www.amnestyusa.org/pdfs/mazeofinjustice.pdf

https://www.ncjrs.gov/ovc_archives/nvaa99/chap3-4.htm

https://mn350.org/giant-step-backward/

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