Eight actors have joined the second season of Netflix’s live-action rendition of Avatar: The Last Airbender. They join the original cast, as well as Miya Cech, who we already knew was taking on the role of Toph.
According to Variety, the new cast members include Chin Han (Mortal Kombat, Skyscraper), who will play Long Fen, the leader of the Ba Sing Se secret police. Hoa Xuande (The Sympathizer, Top of the Lake: China Girl) is taking on the role of Professor Zei, head of the anthropology department at Ba Sing Se University, with Justin Chien (The Brothers Sun, The Great Leap) playing King Kuei of the Earth Kingdom.
Other additions include Amanda Zhou (Spinning Out, The Handmaid’s Tale) as Joo Dee, a public servant and guide for visitors to Ba Sing Se, Crystal Yu (Doctor Who, Good Omens) as Lady Beifong, Toph’s mother, Kelemete Misipeka (Sons of Thunder, Ray Donovan) as the earthbending wrestler The Boulder, and Lourdes Faberes (The Sandman, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre) as the Earth Army leader, General Sung. Rekha Sharma (Yellowjackets, Battlestar Galactica) is playing a character named Amita, who was not in the original animated series.
The second season of the show is already in production with new showrunners on board. We don’t have any news yet, however, on when season two (or the already greenlit season three, for that matter) will make its way to Netflix.
