Sci-Fi Avatar: The Way Of Water

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Avatar: The Next Shadow Comic Bridges the Gap Between the 2009 Film and the Sequel

 

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[Schlosser85]

She looks good. Pulls off the military look.

 

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I didn’t even know she was part of the cast. She’s a great actress!

 

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Sigourney Weaver Goes Her Own Way

And, despite the cliché, “plunge” is the right word. In “Avatar 2,” which is largely finished but not scheduled for release until December 2022 — to be followed by several planned sequels — she shot many of her scenes underwater. Never mind that she was closing in on 70. (She’s now 71.) Or that the preparation included dives in Key West, Fla., and in Hawaii, where she reclined on the ocean floor while manta rays glided over her. Or that she needed to train with an expert who had coached elite military divers so that she could hold her breath, after a big gulp of supplemental oxygen, for more than six minutes. That made the part moreattractive to her. “My hope is that what I receive from the universe is even more outrageous than anything I can think of,” she told me. “I don’t really say to myself, ‘Well, you can’t do this.’ Or, ‘You can’t do that.’ Let me at it! And we’ll see.”

 

[Schlosser85]

Sigourney’s a bad-ass.

 

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[Batmannerism]

Sigourney’s a bad-ass.

She's the American Helen Mirren, but hasn't received the proper level of acclaim.

 

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"Jack! Jack! Where are you?"

 

[dark_b]

She is not wearing the mocap bodysuit and doesnt have dots on her face. this is more like for reference. Still good marketing through social media by having avatar always in the news.

 

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Kate Winslet on That Underwater 'Avatar 2' Set Photo: "That Was Quite Scary"

Winslet opened up about the Avatar 2 photo during her chat with Collider’s Christina Radish while promoting her new film Ammonite. When the subject of the photo came up, Winslet recalled, “I was walking on walking on the bottom of the tank. That’s a big ceremonial sequence with those huge heavy wings. That was quite scary. The thing is, when you can hold your breath for seven minutes, you become unafraid. Actually, strangely, I was able to rely on my own ability to hold my breath for that long. Somehow I was not afraid, at all.”

From there, Winslet went in-depth about what it took for her, as an actor, to shoot those underwater scenes.


“There’s so much safety underwater. There are two safety divers on every performer. There are two safety divers on every underwater camera. There were so many people in that tank. I probably felt safer down there than I did on dry land. I found the whole thing incredibly calming. There was something very meditative to me, and I don’t meditate. I can’t switch my brain off. I’m too busy. I love doing yoga, but I can only do it for about 25 minutes, and then I’m making lists. I get bored and I have to stop. But somehow, learning how to [do a] breath hold was one of the most calming things I’ve ever done because you have to slow your body down. You actually have to lower your heart rate to be able to oxygenate your body and subsequently hold your breath for that long. So, I had no choice but to stop ****ing moving, which is not normal for me.”

Winslet’s comments about the photo came on the heels of her loving comments about reuniting with Titanic director James Cameron for Avatar 2. It’s undeniable that she and Cameron have a solid working relationship which has remained intact more than 20 years after making the multi-Oscar winning romantic epic. When we asked how the Avatar filming experience compared to filming Titanic with Cameron, Winslet went deep with her praise. As she candidly put it,


“Well, look, we’re all older. We all got older. I look back on the experience of making Titanic and it’s no secret that it was a very difficult shoot. It was very, very stressful and things were tough for all involved. When I think about what Jim had to pull off — six-day weeks, for a seven and a half months shoot, four and a half months of which were night — Christ, I know that was hard for us, the young actors. But I’m able to gain perspective, as well, and with the benefit of hindsight, I look at what Jim was trying to pull off and the level of pressure he was under, and actually, I have even more respect for him now than I ever have done before.”

Winslet continued, “The Jim Cameron on Avatar, he is calmer. I will say that he’s just much more stepped into his true self, I think. That’s because of experience. That’s also because he’s done Avatar before, so he knows this world and he knows these characters. He’s invented that way of filming. There’s a level of confidence that has grounded him in a much more comfortable place, just for him. He was brilliantly collaborative on Avatar, honestly. I was awestruck by how much time he allows for the actors to often just meander over a scene if it doesn’t feel like it fit quite right. And obviously, safety had to come first.”

Additionally, Winslet touched on just how deep her bond with Cameron goes — and it will no doubt delight you.

“Listen, if there’s a proper world collapse and we really are all set on fire and there’s another global pandemic any minute now, I can tell you with my hand on my heart, one of the people I would want to be with in that bunker is Jim Cameron. He’s very much ‘safety first.’ I felt really good working with him. I’m so excited for Avatar.”

 

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Winslet Talks "Avatar 2" Breath Holding - Dark Horizons

 

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[Kane52630]

According to Kate Winslet, she plays a water goddess and is hosting a birth giving ceremony in that pic.

 

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New Avatar Sequels Set Photos Revealed as 2020 Filming Wraps (comingsoon.net)

 

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[DarkKnight88]

Favreau, get James Cameron to direct a Mandalorian episode next season!

 

[Marvolo]

Favreau, get James Cameron to direct a Mandalorian episode next season!

If he starts working on an episode next year he might finish it before the final season wraps up.

 

[Schlosser85]

Favreau, get James Cameron to direct a Mandalorian episode next season!

That'd be great but considering Cameron only makes a movie like every ten years or so, I don't know if you'd get him just to do one Mandalorian episode. Or if he even likes Star Wars (?)

 

[DarkKnight88]

Or if he even likes Star Wars (?)

He's a huge fan of the original film. He pursued being a filmmaker because of Star Wars and quit his truck driving job because of it.

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Some more soundbites here...

 

[Kane52630]

You can see the influences with his first short film Xenogenesis which was a year after Star Wars came out.

Also some stuff that would later be used in Terminator.

 

[Iceman]

According to Kate Winslet, she plays a water goddess and is hosting a birth giving ceremony in that pic.

Water goddess sounds cool. Look forward to seeing Kate.

 

[psylockolussus]

I'm looking for this Water Tribe!

I wonder if there are going to play with other elements or feature something different in Avatar 3 location wise, to differentiate it from Avatar 2. I'm thinking aliens living around volcanoes, geysers, and caves.