Jame's Cameron's highly anticipated film Avatar hits screens nationwide next Friday the 18th and, as with any film looking for some press, the cast is out and about pumping up the film and chatting about their work experiences. Co-star Michele Rodriguez (The Fast and the Furious, Girl Fight, Lost) spoke with Jevon Phillips of the LA Times blog, Hero Complex, and Star Wars happened to come up...

"JP: Did you have the sense that you were working on something historic? A lot of people view the film as a key moment in special-effects film, at least in its ambitions.

MR: To me, it was like working on "Star Wars" -- the first one. You know how now you watch "Star Wars" ["Episode I" in 1999] and you're like "I could've rented or bought the video game then I'd be in control of what's happening' -- because everything's so digital and it doesn't feel real. But you watch the first one ["Episode IV" in 1977] and I don't know how you feel, but I wonder, 'Why does this feel so much greater than the digitized world he [George Lucas] created now?' And I realize it's because of the props. And that's the kind of live-action world that Jim created."

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Thanks Jimmy!