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Joey King is shutting down rumors that she has auditioned play the role of Katara in the upcoming Netflix live-action series Avatar: The Last Airbender.

A tweet went viral claiming that the 21-year-old actress was spotted at the casting call for the upcoming series.

Joey responded and said, “I have 0 involvement in this project and didn’t know this project even existed until I logged onto twitter today and my timeline was floooded with these rumors. I do not believe a white woman should play a character of color. Not me or any white woman for that matter.”

The series is still in development at Netflix and creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko just announced that they are no longer involved in the project.

DiMartino said, “Unfortunately, things did not go as we had hoped… Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Avatar has the potential to be good. It might turn out to be a show many of you end up enjoying. But what I can be certain about is that whatever version ends up on-screen, it will not be what Bryan and I had envisioned or intended to make.”

The role of Katara was played by Nicola Peltz in the 2010 live-action feature film adaptation of The Last Airbender.

Earlier this week, Joey explained why she deleted one of her recent viral tweets.

Taylor Zakhar Perez may not be dating Joey King, but he’d love to!

The 28-year-old actor opened up about his 21-year-old The Kissing Booth 2 co-star on Monday (August 10) on the Chicks in the Office podcast.

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“We were quarantine buddies so I would see [King] all the time because we lived five minutes away from each other. We know what our relationship is, we love each other dearly,” he explained.

“It’s been interesting how everyone has been trying to make something out of it but it’s fine. I mean, hey, I would love to be dating Joey King, she’s dope,” he continued.

“I’m a huge fan of dating your friend, someone that you know and you trust because that’s where it all starts right. For me, non-sexual intimacy is so much more important to me at first. I’m all about the sensitive stuff.”

“I’m all about the ROI, what’s the return on investment. If I’m investing this much time into someone I’m gonna be dating, I’m gonna make sure this is more than a three-month thing. I’m more into long-term goal wise when it comes to work and relationships and everything…life’s short and you want to make sure you are spending it with the best people. I’m so much more turned on by emotional intimacy than sexual intimacy at first. I love that,” he went on to say.

The two recently made headlines for their hiking trip together. See the pictures!

Joey King is opening up about that viral tweet she posted last week in response to her The Kissing Booth co-star and ex-boyfriend Jacob Elordi saying he didn’t watch the sequel.

The 21-year-old actress made a virtual appearance on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show on Tuesday morning (August 11) and opened up about the film.

Howard is actually a massive fan of The Kissing Booth film franchise and says that Joey is his favorite actress!

After Jacob claimed he hasn’t seen The Kissing Booth 2, Joey tweeted, “Jacob watched it. He’s capping.” The tweet was deleted shortly after and she’s explaining why.

“I said, ‘Jacob watched it. He’s capping.’ Which, ‘capping’ means lying. I head the term ‘capping’ on like Tik Tok and Twitter and Instagram, through friends, and I was like ‘I guess this is the new thing.’ Apparently its not. It’s something I should not have used as a white person. I took it down… two accounts on Twitter called me out for it, that’s why I deleted it. People thought it was because I was like ‘oh no I shouldn’t have said that about him’ so I deleted it because of that,” Joey said.

She continued, “The tweet was a jovial thing. It wasn’t to be mean—it really wasn’t. I know the The Kissing Booth fans they are always so curious about that tension of sorts and so I was like I’m just going to, I know they will appreciate it and that’s who it was for.”

“I did get his permission to tweet it so that was fine,” Joey added. “He had a good sense of humor about that tweet, for sure.”

Jacob recently opened up about what bothered him about the first Kissing Booth movie.

FYI: Joey is wearing a SAVÀ skirt, a Princess Polly top, Jennifer Zeuner earrings and colored rings, a Versace chain necklace and Stella Bow’s I Am A Voter pendant necklace.

Joey King plays with her hair on the September 2020 cover Cosmopolitan magazine.

Here’s what the 21-year-old Kissing Booth actress had to say:

On acting with her ex-boyfriend, Jacob Elordi: “No one’s thinking to themselves, That was easy, because it wasn’t. I’m sure people will analyze every movement and every detail. And you know what? Let them. But at the end of the day, I was just thrilled to be Elle Evans again…There’s so much I want to say. What’s the most, um, correct way to go about this? Elle Evans needs her Noah Flynn, and whatever that means for my personal life, I’ll do anything to make sure the story of my character who I care about so much is complete.”

On setting goals: “Some people are really good about setting goals—if they set a goal, they know they have to do it and they won’t feel good until they do it. I am the same way, yet I still let myself not get it done for some reason.”

On 2020 and hope: “2020 is a piece of shit. And I know it’s silly to hope that everything’s beautiful by September because it won’t be. So I’m hoping that there’s hope. That’s more realistic.”

You can pick up a copy of Joey‘s cover of Cosmopolitan, on newsstands August 18.

If you missed it, Joey recently called out Jacob for this lie he told…

Jacob Elordi claims that he hasn’t watched the new movie The Kissing Booth 2 and his co-star Joey King says that’s not true!

The 21-year-old actress took to Twitter on Thursday night (August 6) to rebut what Jacob said in a new interview.

“I haven’t seen it. You’ve seen more than I have. I don’t know if I’m allowed to say that, but I haven’t,” Jacob told Variety.

Joey tweeted, “Jacob watched it. He’s capping.” For those that don’t know, the expression “capping” means lying or faking.

Soon after that tweet went out to her fans, Joey posted a GIF of Benedict Cumberbatch sipping tea.

One of the other stars from The Kissing Booth 2 just responded to rumors that he and Joey are a couple.

Taylor Zakhar Perez is putting dating rumors to rest!

The 28-year-old actor opened up about the whispers of him possibly dating his The Kissing Booth 2 co-star Joey King in an interview with Access on Wednesday (August 5).

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During the chat with Access Hollywood‘s Kit Hoover about his sudden rise to fame, he spoke about the attention he’s getting, as well as his character in The Kissing Booth 2. Taylor also confirmed that he’s not dating his co-star, Joey, despite speculation that the two were more than just friends.

“I know, we went away this weekend…everyone kinda freaked about it. We are not dating. We just became really close during filming, but we became even closer after filming because we literally live close to each other…we were kind of each other’s accountability partners during quarantine,” he explained.

He also revealed his favorite thing about Joey: “She can make me cry laugh. She is hysterical…she just cracks me up, and she has this really funny laugh that makes me laugh even more.”

Plus, he teased what fans can expect from the highly-anticipated third installment of the hit series!

The two made headlines for their hiking trip together. See the pictures!

Joey King and her The Kissing Booth 2 co-star Taylor Zakhar Perez are on vacation together and we have more pics from their weekend getaway!

The 21-year-old actress and the 28-year-old actor, who played Elle and Marco in the Netflix rom-com, enjoyed the California wilderness during a hike on Sunday (August 2).

Joey and Taylor both shared photos on their Instagram accounts and you can check out all of the snaps in the gallery. The co-stars were joined by a group of friends, including Taylor‘s sister, for the getaway. They assured fans that they all tested negative for COVID-10 before setting off on the trip.

Make sure to check out the pics of Joey and Taylor going for a swim under a waterfall!

Joey just landed a movie role alongside one of the biggest stars in the world.