Jake Sully

Jake Sully is the main protagonist of the American science fiction film series Avatar. The character is portrayed by Sam Worthington. Cameron cast the Australian actor after a worldwide search for promising young actors, preferring relative unknowns to keep the budget down.[1] Worthington, who was living in his car at the time,[2] auditioned twice early in development,[3] and he has signed on for possible sequels.[4] Cameron felt that because Worthington had not done a major film, he would give the character "a quality that is really real". Cameron said he "has that quality of being a guy you'd want to have a beer with, and he ultimately becomes a leader who transforms the world".[5]

Fictional biography

Jake is originally depicted as human, born and raised on Earth. A paraplegic former marine, he arrives on Pandora, a fictional inhabited Earth-like moon in another planetary system[6] to replace his murdered twin brother Tom Sully, a Ph.D. who trained as an Avatar operator. Initially being relegated to a role of bodyguard within the Avatar Program, unexpectedly, he infiltrates and gains the trust of the Omaticaya tribe of Na'vi in Pandora. Changing his allegiance to the native Na'vi, he leads them to fight and win against the humans for survival. He later gives up the paraplegic human body and takes up the carbon fibre strengthened synthetic body of his Avatar. As depicted in the film he is the first human to permanently crossover from human form to Na'vi physical form, thus enabling him to adapt to the atmosphere of Pandora.

References
  1. Conan O'Brien (December 18, 2009). "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien". The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. Season 1. Episode 128. NBC. I was cheap
  2. Kevin Williamson. "Paraplegic role helps Worthington find his feet". lfpress.com. Archived from the original on January 30, 2010. Retrieved January 1, 2010.
  3. Jeff Jensen (January 10, 2007). "Great Expectations (page 2)". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 17, 2010.
  4. "This week's cover: James Cameron reveals plans for an 'Avatar' sequel". Entertainment Weekly. January 14, 2010. Archived from the original on January 23, 2010. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  5. John Horn. "Faces to watch 2009: film, TV, music and Web". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on December 31, 2008. Retrieved December 28, 2008.
  6. Avatar: A Confidential Report on the Biological and Social History of Pandora. ISBN 978-0061896750


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