Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action series now has an open casting call for Toph with blind or low vision actors encouraged!
Avatar: The Last Airbender is now in the works on Season 2 with Netflix, and the live-action series has launched an open casting call for Toph Beifong ahead of the new episodes!
Avatar: The Last Airbender was such a massive success with Netflix that it was
announced that the live-action series would be continuing with not just one, but two seasons to bring its adaptation of the original animated series to an end. With production on these new episodes underway, there are some key new additions that fans are most excited to see as the series tackling the final two seasons.
As announced by the casting team behind Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender, Netflix has launched an open casting call for the role of Toph, who makes her debut in the second season of the original series. With shooting for the new season anticipated to start some time later this Fall, Toph in the casting call is described as a character in their "mid-late teens, blind, female, and Asian." Actors who are blind or low vision are encouraged to submit their applications as well (which makes sense given that's one of the character's key traits in the original).
Below is Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender casting call for Toph in full:
AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER
OPEN CASTING SEARCH
seeking the role of
"TOPH"
Character is mid-late teens, blind, female, Asian.
She is sassy, confident, and unfiltered. For most of her life her strength and formidable earthbending skills have been suppressed, but now on the run as the Avatar's earthbending master she is uninhibited to become the fierce warrior she believes she is inside. Dance and/or martial arts experience a plus. Shooting anticipated for Fall 2024.
Actors who are blind or low vision are encouraged to submit.
TO SUBMIT:
Please email DTCOpenCall@gmail.com with a recent picture, resume or a one-paragraph bio, along with your name and phone number. Please feel free to share any lived experience with blindness/low vision if you are comfortable doing so.
We are committed to inclusive, diverse casting. For every role, please submit qualified performers without regard to disability, race, age, color, national origin, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis prohibited by law. NOTE: there is never a fee for submitting or auditioning.
Pay for the foregoing role will be governed by the currently effective UBCP or SAG/AFTRA collective bargaining agreement as applicable and thus will be no less than the minimum set forth therein and up to any "better conditions and terms" negotiated and obtained as expressly provided therein.
NETFLIX
DOWNTOWN CASTING
JENNY JUE, CSA
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Who Is Toph?
Netflix describes their vision of Toph for the Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action series as such, "She is sassy, confident and unfiltered. For most of her life her strength and formidable earthbending skills have been surppressed, but now on the run as the Avatar's earthbending master she is uninhibited to become the fierce warrior she believes she is inside. Dance and/or martial arts experience is a plus." And if that suits you, throw your hat into the proverbial ring!
Avatar: The Last Airbender Seasons 2 and 3 are now in the works with Netflix, but a release date for the coming episodes have yet to be announced as of the time of this publication. With this casting call confirming a Fall 2024 start date for shooting, it likely won't be too much of a wait before we get to see the new seasons in action. At the very least, it won't be as long of a wait as it was for the first season.
You can now check out the eight episode first season of Avatar: The Last Airbender now streaming with Netflix. It stars a cast with the likes of Gordon Cormier as Aang, Kiawentiio as Katara, Ian Ousley as Sokka, Dallas Liu as Prince Zuko, Elizabeth Yu as Azula, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Iroh, Daniel Dae Kim as Fire Lord Ozai and more.
