Michelle Rodriguez Refused To Return To ‘avatar’ Franchise: It Would Be ‘overkill’ To Resurrect Character

Michelle Rodriguez doesn’t think Hollywood knows what to do with her. The franchise staple actress, most famously in the decades-spanning “Fast and Furious” universe, recalled turning down appearing in “Avatar: The Way of Water” after her character Trudy Chacón died in the first 2009 film. Trudy (Rodriguez) is a combat pilot working for the government Avatar Program who dies in battle after sacrificing her life to support the Indigenous Na’vi of Pandora. Rodriguez denied appearing again in the franchise and told “Avatar: The Way of Water” director James Cameron why. “Dude, when I saw Jim [Cameron] recently, he was like, ‘I was thinking, “What if Michelle came back?