Society often looks to labels mothers and pregnant women as warriors, but that label was considered to be largely metaphorical. At least that's how it was until James Cameron decided to up the ante.
While speaking with fellow director, Robert Rodriguez, for Variety's popular "Directors on Directors" series, Cameron went down the proverbial rabbit hole of female empowerment and explained why he felt it necessary to depict pregnant Na'vi warriors riding into battle in Avatar 2: The Way of Water.