Avatar: The Last Airbender star excited to shave his hair to play Aang

After a long time in incubation, Netflix is finally getting ready to roll out its live-action remake of the classic Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender, revealing some of the principal cast members just the other week.

Playing lead character Aang is Gordon Cormier, who seems like a perfect choice. Not only does he know martial arts, but every single picture of him seems to show him smiling in a way that’s very reminiscent of the puckish Aang.

Cormier still has a few things he has to do to transform fully into Aang, though. For one, the titular Last Airbender is shaved bald, which is common in his culture. Naturally, Cormier is all about it. “Absolutely!!!!” he enthused on Instagram when someone asked if he intended to shave his head for the role. “I am Aang!!” In another comment, he noted that he “couldn’t be Aang any other way!!!”

That said, filming hasn’t started yet, so there’s no big rush. “[T]rying to keep it for as long as I can,” he wrote. “Don’t want to sunburn my scalp!”

Will Azula appear in the first season of Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender?

In other Last Airbender news, Avatar News reports that Azula, one of the big villains from the original series, will make an appearance in season 1.

Azula is a firebending prodigy, the psychopathic sister of lead character Prince Zuko (Dallas Liu), and if I’m being honest, probably my favorite character from the original show. She has a couple of cameo appearances in the first season of the Nickelodeon series, although we don’t really get to know (and fear) her until the second. I wouldn’t be surprised if she showed up in the first season of Netflix’s live-action remake, although there’s been no casting announcement as of yet.

Netflix hasn’t revealed a release date for Avatar: The Last Airbender yet, but I’d expect it sometime in 2022 at the earliest.

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