The sequel to “Avatar” isn’t called “The Water Way” for no reason. The cast members of the film, which is set to hit theaters in December, spent several minutes underwater without breathing, which turned into a competition between the actors.
In an interview with The New York Times, James Cameron, Zoe Saldaña, Sam Worthington and Sigourney Weaver shared details on the new film in the franchise, which has other features in its future. One of Saldaña’s main topics was training to stay underwater for minutes, acting without breathing.
In order for the underwater scenes to be realized naturally, the cast underwent exercises to be able to hold their breath for minutes.
“The first step is to pretend until you make it,” said the actress who plays Neytiri in the franchise. “You say to your boss, ‘Yeah sure, I’m so excited,’ and then it’s a complete horror, like ‘What am I going to do?’ At best, you’ll come out with a whole new attitude, but I was scared, “said the” Avatar 2 “actress.
“I have come from generations of islanders and the only thing people don’t know about life on the island is that if you come from islands that have been colonized, a large percentage of people can’t swim. Through folklore, you are taught to love the ocean as if she were a goddess, but you are afraid of it, ”Saldaña said.
In the interview, Saldaña was proud to be able to go nearly five full minutes without breathing, but made it clear that her time was far from the best among the cast. “I’m very competitive, but we had an Oscar-winning actress in our cast who worked for seven minutes,” she said.
The cast’s “competition” champion was none other than Kate Winslet, who had already mentioned her time in a previous interview: “Seven minutes and 14 seconds, baby!” Winslet said in a conversation with the magazine. empirewhere she stressed that “the most surprising thing for me as a middle-aged woman was learning something not only new, but superhuman”.
In conversation with The New York Times, “Avatar” franchise director James Cameron himself commented on the actress’s performance when asked if he had any idea she would be capable of it. “No, and neither do you!” said the director. “But Kate is a grooming demon, so she got hooked on freediving as something to build her character on.”
A photo of Kate Winslet in the underwater scene recordings was even posted by Jon Landau, producer of the film:
She continued, “Kate’s character is a person raised underwater, like a Na’vi adapted to the ocean – they are so physically different from the forest Na’vi that we almost classify them as a subspecies. So she had to be totally calm underwater and it turned out she was natural. “
In addition to Saldaña and his nearly five minutes, and Winslet with his over seven minutes, Sigourney Weaver, at the height of his 73 years, reached the milestone of six and a half minutes underwater. “To the professor’s surprise!” Weaver said. “He Said to get rid of his he mammal instinct to say, ‘Oh my God, my face is in the water.’ Then spend several minutes simply returning your body to that element and letting the feelings of the earth person dissolve. “
“Avatar: O Caminho da Água” will be released in Brazilian theaters on December 15th.
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