Say Hello to Avatar: The Last Airbender‘s New Toph

We’ve known beauteous overmuch since it became an contiguous smash hit for the streamer that Netflix has been moving connected a 2nd (and third) season of its live-action re-imagining of Avatar: The Last Airbender, but present Netflix is acceptable to springiness you your archetypal tiny look astatine what’s to travel successful Aang and the gang’s continuing adventures… mostly successful the signifier of a precise acquainted face.

During tonight’s Geeked Week Live lawsuit successful Atlanta, Netflix confirmed that play 2 of the live-action Avatar is successful production, with a little teaser announcing that Miya Cech has joined the main formed arsenic beloved Last Airbender quality Toph Beifong. Similarly introduced aboriginal connected successful the 2nd play of the animated bid (initially successful a little imaginativeness earlier making her afloat quality successful “The Blind Bandit”), Toph is simply a young unsighted miss who uses her earthbending abilities to link to the satellite astir her and widen her senses. Initially joining Aang, Katara, and Sokka connected their travel to thatch the young Avatar however to hone his ain earthbending skills, Toph yet becomes 1 of the astir powerful and celebrated earthbenders around, going connected to observe its sub-type metalbending and yet assistance to bid the adjacent Avatar, Korra, during the series’ successor, The Legend of Korra.

Cech, who is of Chinese and Japanese American descent, is not blind, but volition enactment “with a shaper and consultant, who is unsighted and a nonrecreational from the blindness community, to marque definite the blindness assemblage is represented appropriately” successful portraying the character, according to a property merchandise provided by Netflix.

For each its tweaks to the root material, arguable oregon otherwise, nary 1 is going to beryllium excessively amazed that the adjacent play of Avatar volition bring Toph into the fold. After all, Netflix is calling the show’s 2nd play “Earth” overmuch similar the animated bid did. Time volition tell, Toph oregon otherwise, conscionable what else Avatar volition negociate to accommodate successful its sophomore play successful opposition to the animated series. Even arsenic it changeable up the streaming charts to success, 1 of the accordant criticisms of the archetypal play was its prime to condense the communicative of the animated show’s 20-episode debut play into conscionable 8 episodes. While Netflix has yet to corroborate conscionable however agelong either play 2 oregon play 3 of the live-action amusement volition cookware retired to be, fingers crossed it’s a acquisition the bid has learned to grip a spot amended this clip round.

We’ll bring you much connected Netflix’s plans for The Last Airbender arsenic we larn them—but with play 2 lone conscionable entering production, it’s apt going to beryllium a bully portion yet earlier we get to spot much of Toph and her caller friends successful enactment again.

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