For AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER star Ian Ousley, getting discipled transformed his faith.
“I came off of Season 1, and I would say that I was like fully down to follow Jesus, but I was fully undiscipled. Fully undiscipled,” Ousley admitted on George Janko’s podcast. “Came out of Season 1 and was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m gonna be so big. This is gonna be the hottest thing.’ And then it was like, ‘When does it come out?’ And it was like a year and a half. I was like, ‘What?'”
“So I was just a normal person for like a year and a half, and that’s where I really gave my life to the Lord, I would say,” the actor, who plays Sokka on the show, explained. “And I started being discipled and following Him. And that year and some change was so important for me to like reevaluate who I was as a person.”
Today, Ousley uses his social media platform to share about his faith in God.
“God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth,” he posted earlier this month.
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“Thank you Jesus for 2025,” he wrote in a New Year’s post in January.
Season 2 of AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER debuted last month.
“So stoked the world gets to see all the hard work we put in but also the absolute playtime we had making Season 2 of this show. Love this team so much. It’s hard to think that this book is closed but in the end it’s just another turn of the page. I’m so grateful that these characters on and off screen, in front and behind the camera, will always be with me,” Ousley said.
In Season 2, the action scenes are bigger, the sets are better and the characters have grown.
“Our goal for Season 1 was to introduce the audience to this group of characters that were kids in the middle of a war zone,” executive producer Jabbar Raisani told Netflix. “And [in] Season 2, we take those kids and they grow. But growth is not a straight line…They’re really trying to figure out who they are.”
Movieguide®, however, advises viewers avoid AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER, giving the first season a -4 content score.
“AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER is well-produced fantasy adventure with good writing, performances and character development,” the review reads. “However, it has a false pagan worldview based on occult Eastern mysticism, with strong environmentalist overtones. The series is steeped in Hinduism and Buddhism. Also, the young hero meditates with a spirit world and communes with his reincarnated selves. The abhorrent worldview in Season One of LAST AIRBENDER is slightly mitigated by moral redemptive values like justice and self-sacrificial love.”
As Ousley turns the page to the next chapter of his career, he carries with him a renewed purpose: using every gift, role and platform to bring glory to God.
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