Netflix’s Last Airbender Will Make Some Changes to Toph

The 2nd play of Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender will reintroduce audiences to Toph Beifong, a 12-year-old unsighted Earthbender who becomes Aang’s teacher. Like with characters from the past season, the live-action mentation of Toph (played by Miya Cech) volition travel with immoderate changes and tweaks.

During the reddish carpet for the sci-fi film Marshmallow, Cech talked astir her attack to her upcoming role. Speaking with The Direct, she reiterated her Toph would beryllium somewhat older than her animated version—something archetypal reported successful January—and said she met with dependable histrion Michaela Murphy connected their akin processes. She further revealed her Toph would beryllium “slightly much feminine” than the original. ” I consciousness similar I wanted to enactment into a precise humanizing abstraction for her due to the fact that she was [originally] a cartoon.”

In the original Avatar, Toph grew up arsenic the girl of 2 affluent Earth Kingdom aristocrats who kept her hidden due to the fact that she was blind. When Aang, Sokka, and Katara archetypal conscionable her, she’s moonlighting arsenic a trashtalking wrestler named the Blind Bandit, and she’s a symptom successful the ass erstwhile she joins them. Several episodes are astir her being overly blunt oregon beefing with idiosyncratic other successful the party–usually Katara–and some of them learning to vibe with each different amended portion inactive being themselves. One of their champion moments arsenic a duo comes successful the anthology occurrence “Tales of Ba Sing Se,” wherever Katara takes her connected a spa time and Toph acknowledges that she does similar being feminine from clip to time, conscionable not all the time, a constituent that makes Cech’s attack to tweaking the quality interesting.

The archetypal play of Avatar also came with immoderate baggage astir its attack to characters: its large cardinal update to Sokka was making him less sexist due to the fact that the creators “felt it mightiness play a small otherwise [in unrecorded action],” said histrion Ian Ousley successful 2023. This caused a batch of heated discussion, due to the fact that OG Sokka wasn’t perpetually beilttling Katara for being a girl, helium was conscionable a dick sometimes, thing helium unlearned for the ample portion by the show’s 5th episode. Those who saw the live-action mentation felt removing his sexism made him, and by hold his eventual romance with Suki, substantially little interesting.

We’ll spot however things shingle retired with Toph when Avatar: The Last Airbender comes backmost for play two.

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