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       'Avatar: Fire and Ash' Varang Actor Oona Chaplin   
       Is Charlie Chaplin's Granddaughter and Considered   
       Changing Her Name: 'It's Tricky to Feel Undeserving'   
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       Oona Chaplin is the actor behind "Avatar: Fire and Ash" villain   
       Varang. She's also the granddaughter of film icon Charlie Chaplin.   
       Oona, whose credits also include "Game of Thrones," recently told   
       The Times of London that she considered changing her name after   
       graduating from Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and starting her   
       pursuit of a full-time acting career.   
      
       "It's been a journey to feel deserving, because I know that doors   
       have opened for me that potentially wouldn't have opened if I   
       wasn't associated with this brilliant man," Oona Chaplin said.   
       "It's definitely tricky to feel undeserving of the place you're   
       in."   
      
       She decided against changing her name, however, because her   
       mindset shifted "from guilt to gratitude by working really hard   
       and knowing that whatever I do is never going to compare to what   
       my grandfather did. If all my purpose in this realm is for people   
       to say, 'Oh, Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter', and they google him   
       and watch a movie of his, then I'm happy because he's such a   
       genius."   
      
       Oona's mother, Geraldine Chaplin, was Charlie's daughter and was   
       also an actor in her own right. While "Avatar: Fire and Ash" marks   
       Oona's first major Hollywood blockbuster film, she's been acting   
       professionally since 2007. Her credits also include "Taboo,"   
       "The Crimson Field" and "Black Mirror."   
      
       The actor told The Times of London that she believes Charlie   
       Chaplin "would've been on board" with the "Avatar" movies, adding:   
       "I feel like James Cameron is probably one of the closest things   
       that we have to Chaplin now, even though they're really different.   
       They know what they're talking about, so people listen."   
      
       Cameron told IndieWire during his latest "Avatar" press tour that   
       he was originally "seeing women whose names you would know   
       instantly, who were already stars and people that I had really   
       wanted to work with" when he was casting the role of Varang.   
      
       "It was a hard decision to turn against faces and names that I   
       already knew, but Oona surprised me with her perception of the   
       character, her way of moving, and her utter fearlessness," he added   
       about casting Chaplin. "And she was well-prepared - she knew the   
       scene cold, and it was seven or eight pages."   
      
       "Avatar: Fire and Ash" is now playing in theaters nationwide.   
      
      
      
      
      
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