Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender has found its Toph Beifong. Announced at Netflix’s Geeked Week, production on the second season has begun with Miya Cech (You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah) joining the series as the fan-favourite Earthbender. Watch the teaser of Toph’s arrival below…
Toph is a very powerful and talented Earthbender despite her youth and blindness. Aang and his friends search her out so he can learn Earthbending techniques from her in their battle against the Fire Nation. She joined Avatar: The Last Airbender in its second season and quickly became a beloved character and incredibly important to the rest of the series.
Netflix described Toph as “sassy, confident and unfiltered. For most of her life her strength and formidable earthbending skills have been suppressed, but now on the run as the Avatar’s earthbending master she is uninhibited to become the fierce warrior she believes she is inside.”
Cech has starred in several productions for Netflix that include Adam Sandler’s You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah, the recent Emmy Winner for Best Limited Series Beef and the American Girl movie Corrine Tan. Earlier this year Avatar: The Last Airbender was renewed for a second and third season we’ll be seeing more of Cech as Toph as the fight against the Fire Nation continues.
Set in an Asiatic, war-torn world where certain people can ‘bend’ one of the four classical elements: water, earth, fire, or air. Aang (Gordon Cormier) is the “Avatar,” the only one capable of bending all the elements, and is destined to bring peace to the world from the Fire Nation. With his new companions Katara (Kiawentiio) and Sokka (Ian Ousley), Aang sets out to master the elements while being pursued by the exiled Fire Nation prince Zuko (Daniel Dae Kim), who seeks to regain his honor by capturing the Avatar.
Avatar: The Last Airbender stars Gordon Cormier as Aang, Kiawentiio as Katara, Ian Ousley as Sokka, Dallas Liu as Zuko, Elizabeth Yu as Azula, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Iroh, and Daniel Dae Kim as Fire Lord Ozai.
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