Daniel Dae Kim brought the ultimate villain — tyrant Fire Lord Ozai — out of animation and into 3D in Netflix’s live-action “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” especially in interactions with Ozai’s children Prince Zuko (Dallas Liu) and Azula (Elizabeth Yu), who reflect him in different ways.
Kim’s Fire Lord doesn’t make an appearance until the very end of the third episode in the Netflix series, similar to the “big bad” in a video game, as the actor puts it, but he still appears much sooner in the live-action series than in the animated one, voiced by “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill.