Miya Cech is becoming a member of the solid of the reside motion Avatar: The Final Airbender collection!
The 17-year-old actress has been solid to painting the fan-favorite character Toph Beifong in season two, it was introduced on Thursday (September 19) at Netflix‘s Geeked Week Dwell.
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“We make some extent of reviewing submissions individually and after numerous tapes, we each had the identical response,” Govt Producers Christine Boylan and Habbar Raisani shared in a press release. “Miya is our Toph! Miya is an excellent performer who is aware of the right way to exactly steadiness the sarcastic humorousness, stubbornness, and vulnerability that’s Toph Beifong. Her physicality and emotional dexterity actually put her in a category of 1.”
For these that will not know, Toph is a grasp earthbender who was born blind and skilled to really feel and sense the world round her.
“I’ve been in boot camp for a couple of week and a half now and nonetheless have a number of work to do, but it surely’s tremendous enjoyable,” Miya shared. “I’ve some martial arts expertise. I’ve a terrific teacher who I take personal lessons with again residence in Northern California, and he retains me in form after I’m not working. I even have some dance expertise from after I was youthful that has been very useful as I study Toph’s actions.”
Miya can also be working with a producer and marketing consultant who’s blind and an expert from the blindness group guaranteeing they’re represented appropriately.
“I personally am of Chinese language and Japanese American descent and I’m so excited to symbolize my Chinese language heritage in Toph Beifong,” the younger actress added. “Probably the most unimaginable points of this present is the variety of the Asian cultures within the ATLA world. Regardless that the universe is fantasy, it appears like each tradition is represented in a roundabout way and tied to the historical past and traditions of that tradition or nation. Just some years in the past, you might need seen one or two of those actors in a present or film, however on this present we’re all capable of symbolize this world collectively and work collectively and collaborate. It’s actually superb and a present as an actor.”
Miya isn’t any stranger to being on Netflix as she appeared within the YA comedy You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah and the Emmy successful collection BEEF. She additionally just lately had a recurring position on The Santa Clauses on Disney+ and starred within the Nickelodeon collection The Astronauts and Are You Afraid of the Darkish?
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