The second season of Netflix’s live-action adaptation Avatar: The Last Airbender has filled out several significant roles from the original animated series.
Per Variety, the series has cast Chin Han (Mortal Kombat) Hoa Xuande (The Sympathizer), Justin Chien (The Brothers Sun), Amanda Zhou (Spinning Out), Crystal Yu (Good Omens), Kelemete Misipeka (Sons of Thunder), Lourdes Faberes (Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre) and Rekha Sharma (Battlestar Galactica).
Han will star as Long Feng, an Earthbender and leader of the Dai Li, the secret police in the Earth kingdom city Ba Sing Se. Though he serves the Earth King, Feng is very manipulative and uses the secret police to suppress knowledge of the war against the Fire Nation among Ba Sing Se’s populace, projecting an image that everything is normal while weakening the King’s rule and transferring power to himself.
Xuande will play Professor Zei, head of the anthropology department at Ba Sing Se University who is obsessed with finding the legendary library of Wan Shi Tong which could hold the key to defeating the Fire Nation.
Chien will play King Kuei, the young and naive ruler of the Earth Kingdom. Zhou will play Joo Dee, a public servant and guide for important visitors in Ba Sing Se who keeps tabs for the Dai Li on anyone speaking about the war.
Yu will play Toph’s mother Lady Beifong. Toph was recently cast with Miya Cech playing the fan-favourite character.
Misipeka will play The Boulder, a professional Earthbending wrestler who develops a rivalry with Toph. Faberes will play General Sung, a high-ranking Earth Army commander. Sharma, meanwhile, will play an original character named Amita.
Set in an Asiatic, war-torn world where certain people can ‘bend’ one of the four classical elements: water, earth, fire, or air. Aang (Gordon Cormier) is the “Avatar,” the only one capable of bending all the elements, and is destined to bring peace to the world from the Fire Nation. With his new companions Katara (Kiawentiio) and Sokka (Ian Ousley), Aang sets out to master the elements while being pursued by the exiled Fire Nation prince Zuko (Daniel Dae Kim), who seeks to regain his honor by capturing the Avatar.
Avatar: The Last Airbender stars Gordon Cormier as Aang, Kiawentiio as Katara, Ian Ousley as Sokka, Dallas Liu as Zuko, Elizabeth Yu as Azula, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Iroh, and Daniel Dae Kim as Fire Lord Ozai.
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