Michelle Rodriguez wasn't about to let her Avatar character die in vain.

In a Vanity Fair interview published Thursday, the actress revealed that she wouldn't allow director James Cameron to resurrect her character, Trudy Chacón, for his blockbuster sequel The Way of Water. Chacón, a former Marine pilot who becomes sympathetic to the Na'vi cause, dies in battle in the first film, sacrificing herself so the blue-skinned humanoids can repel the humans plundering the exomoon Pandora.