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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.   
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   >    "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."   
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   >    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."   
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   >    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."   
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   >    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."   
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   >    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.   
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   >    "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."   
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   >    "Avatar: Fire and Ash" is now playing in theaters nationwide.   
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   Charlie was a communist and unwelcome in today's America.   Shame on  you   
   for mentioning his name.   
      
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