You might considerDaniel Dae Kima living Easter egg for Netflix’sAvatar: The Last Airbender.
Now he gets to play the franchise’s ultimate baddie in live-action form.
“That’s one of the things that I was really looking forward to doing.
He reminded me of the Darth Vader of this show.”
“We could never really land on something exactly right.
(In the case of General Fong, he at leastthoughthe was being heroic.)
“A few of my friends brought up that point, too,” he says.
“They were like, ‘Are you sure you want to play a bad guy?’
I was like, ‘Absolutely!’
I don’t want to do just one thing all the time.
I think he’s so unabashedly evil that it’s a joy to play.”
That is how Ozai thinks, in a strange way.
In his own way, he believes he is parenting the best way he knows how.
So he’s trying to figure out who is going to lead this nation into the future.
A lot of the O.G.
series was [told] through the eyes of Zuko, Yu says.
To learn more about Netflix’s live-actionAvatar: The Last Airbender, read EW’s cover story.
