Whitey McCrackerstein.

The actual title of "The Last Airbender"

i dont know why everyone has it out for zuko... his scar, his banishment, and now JESSE MCCARTNEY!!

jason whatever as sokka - no. i dont see it. bad. choice.

Thought this might make an interesting read here. It's a transcript from a recent radio interview with Jesse McCartney where he talks a bit about the movie and his role. So far, he's not making a good first impression, IMO.

Link source (they also provide a link to actually HEAR the interview):
http://dongbufeng.net/site1/content/view/1022/188/

Interview

Radio Host: "Before we play the song, what's going on with you in the movies and stuff? I know you signed on for Chipmunks 2, and what else?"

Jesse McCartney: "I signed on for Chipmunks 2, and um, I don't think I actually had word on this until after I saw you guys last, but um, I'm going to be starring in M. Night Shyamalan's new movie that we're filming this March called The Last Airbender, which is the first part of a trilogy based on an anime series, that was huge, a cartoon anime series called Avatar: The Last Airbender that was explosively huge in Asia. They brought it to the US and it was on for like 3 seasons."

Radio Host: "Dude, I watch it, it's on Nickelodeon, right now."

Jesse McCartney: "On Nickelodeon, exactly. 3 part series, and I'm going to be playing Zuko, which is sort of, he's kind of the evil prince, the Fire Lord's son. M. Night's directing it, we're going to Greenland to start shooting for 3 weeks. And then we go to Philly for 2 months and we finish filming. It's been crazy man, I've been in, hey, Jon Jay, you'll like this, I've been in Kong Fu dude, for like 3 hours a day, like crazy martial arts and stuff, fighting with like different ninjas, it's crazy man."

Radio Host: "Dude are you getting like abs, like cut and stuff, like Kung Fu abs?"

Jesse McCartney: "Dude, it's the best workout, like ever, like 3 hours a day, better than any lifting out, or any cardio work out, like it's a lot of aerobics, a lot of using muscles that you don't usually use, you gotta try it man. And it's addictive, like I finish something, I finish all these different sets, like I'm in the middle of this double saber sword set, and you get like halfway though, and you're like man, this is so much fun, and you can see and feel the difference. It's a crazy workout.

Radio Host: "Can you fight now? Do you think you can fight somebody Kung Fu?"

"Oh yeah!"

(The 2 ramble about Kung Fu Panda)

Radio Host: "When's that movie planning on coming out?"

Jesse McCartney: "I'm not sure exactly, to tell you the truth. They might go for a Christmas release this year, if they can get it together in time, but I don't know the answer to that."

Radio Host: "Who else is in it?"

Jesse McCartney: "There's only been like 2 people in talks, like other than myself. 1 of the girls, her name is Nicola, she's been in a few films, I forget her last name, but she's gorgeous, and she's an amazing actress. And then, 1 of the guys from Twilight is gonna be playing one of the other male roles, Jackson, again don't remember his last name. This is all very recent, very new news."

Radio Host 2: "That's cool! You playing an evil prince. I'm down with that."

Radio Host: "It sounds like one of the first movie that M. Night has done, that's not his own, you know how you don't know the endings mostly, the twist to the M. Night movie. This clearly, he's trying to do something totally different."

Jesse McCartney: "Right, it's pretty much set up for him. And he's gonna make it his own and Night is the best at that, he's really good with that stuff. It's pretty much laid out for him, there's 3 parts to the movie, you know, there's a beginning, middle, and end. I jsut actually finished the script last night, finished reading the first script, and it's amazing, it's gonna be a crazy, action packed really entertaining type movie."

Radio Host: "And it's already going to have a huge following. Here's the thing it says about you in your career, is that, that M. Night dude, he works with just names, dude, he's got Bruce Willis, Samuel Jackson, Mark Wahlberg, Joaquim Phoenix, you know what I mean? Jesse McCartney, dude."

Jesse McCartney: "Definitely one of the biggest directors of our time right now."

Radio Host: "His last movie sucked, though."

Radio Host 3: "Hey, you had everybody talking about it though. Whether you liked it or not, everyone was talking about it."

Radio Host: "Maybe at the end we find out you're dead. The whole time Jesse was dead."

Radio Host 2: "There was no evil prince, that could happen."

Radio Host: "You know what dude, you got like those big eyes, you look like one of those anime..spiky hair. That was a good call dude, a good hire on their part."