Cinema legend Sigourney Weaver, 73, in an interview: About her life as a teenager, her role in the new “Avatar” film and how to learn to distinguish good from bad scripts.
Interviewed by
David Steinitz
Hollywood stars usually travel around the world with their personal PR consultants, who occasionally forbid questions and shorten conversation times. But it has to be said that Sigourney Weaver doesn’t need that: she shows up for an interview in a hotel near the State Opera without a minder and is in a good mood despite Berlin’s depression winter weather. Weaver became the first female superstar of the blockbuster era thanks to the “Alien” films. She also acted in the most successful film in cinema history to date: “Avatar”. Thirteen years later, the sequel “The Way of Water” comes to the cinema (December 14). Even though Weaver’s character died in part one, director James Cameron wanted her back. So he thought up a new role, and so now, at 73 and with a lot of motion capture animation, she plays a teenager: 14-year-old Kiri, from the Na’vi people of the planet Pandora.