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\nIt\u2019s the Avatar: Fire and Ash scene critics and fans keep talking about: A sensual, druggy, S&M-tinged meeting between the film\u2019s two big villains: Col. Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) and Ash People witch-queen Varang (Oona Chaplin). https:\/\/t.co\/k3lgSIMqGc<\/a><\/p>\n
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James Cameron talked about an infamous scene in the latest Avatar film between the two villains Quaritch and Varang. <\/p>\n
Quaritch proposes an alliance with her clan and Varang makes him consume a hallucinogen before seductively cutting his chest with a knife.<\/p>\n
Says Cameron, \u201cIt\u2019s a double seduction. He\u2019s there to get her to do what he wants her to do, then it seems like she\u2019s got him under her thumb, and yet the whole time he\u2019s had a plan and it actually works.\u201d<\/p>\n
This was the scene that Oona Chaplin auditioned with and she beat out three famous actresses for the role. \u201cThere\u2019s a sexuality, there\u2019s a dominating psychology, and there\u2019s a lot of fury,\u201d Cameron said of Chaplin\u2019s audition. \u201cThere are a lot of layers to what she\u2019s doing there and the forces that are driving her, and Oona was able to move fluidly back and forth between those in a way that I wasn\u2019t seeing with the others.\u201c
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