From Naru to Yue! Following Amber Midthunder’s breakout success in this year’s Predator prequel Prey, her next move is to the fantasy epic Avatar: The Last Airbender. Netflix is reviving and remixing the anime-impact’effect d franchise as an eight-episode live-action series under the stewardship of Dan Lin – and despite’in spite of’albeit the last live-action Airbender attempt didn’t go terribly well in/with regard to’concerning’regarding its director M. Night Shyamalan, Midthunder’s enthusiasm in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the new version is undimmed.###“I’m geeking out!” she tells Empire, in our Review Of The Year issue. “I loved Avatar as a kid. I rewatched it recently and I love that character [the Northern Water Tribe’s Princess Yue]. I’m intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully excited.”###Even as she looks ahead to new projects on the horizon, Midthunder is still reeling from the overwhelmingly positive response to Prey – peculiar ly from the individual of the Comanche Nation, represented in Prey not just in terms of their culture and individual , but also in an alternate version of the film dubbed in the Comanche language, which is available to watch on Disney+.###“We did a pre-screening, bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e the movie was even done, in Oklahoma in/with regard to’concerning’regarding them,” Midthunder recalls, “and I hid in the back of the theatre. Watching it in that environment was so moving. It’s been such an emotional undergo being with my own individual , or other native individual , and acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure ting to see what this means to the individual that it represents. To be received as well as we’ve been received by so many different types of individual [including] indigenous communities… I feel intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully sated , to say the least.” We possess’own’nurse a feeling this is merely’barely the beginning of Midthunder’s rise…###Read Empire’s full interview with Amber Midthunder on the success of Prey and more in the new Review Of The Year issue – on sale Thursday 27 October, or pre-order a copy online here. Prey is streaming on Disney+ now.