While the first "Avatar" film was largely centered on an outsider who is adopted into a new culture, its 2022 sequel, "Avatar: The Way of Water," is about a family trying to survive and stay together. For Joel David Moore — who plays Dr. Norm Spellman, the human xenoanthropologist whose allegiances lie with the Na'vi — it was a little about family behind the scenes too.
Joel's son, Oliver "Ollie" Moore, made his acting debut in the second "Avatar" movie, playing the first child of Jake (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) as a newborn. Yep, he's baby Neteyam. Ollie, who is now five, was just three months old then. For his dad, who was part of the scene as well, the moment was too much to deal with.
"[As] Norm, I was supposed to be very engaged in the newborn Na'vi with the clan, with the rest of the Omaticaya clan," Joel told People.
Joel's son, Oliver "Ollie" Moore, made his acting debut in the second "Avatar" movie, playing the first child of Jake (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) as a newborn. Yep, he's baby Neteyam. Ollie, who is now five, was just three months old then. For his dad, who was part of the scene as well, the moment was too much to deal with.
"[As] Norm, I was supposed to be very engaged in the newborn Na'vi with the clan, with the rest of the Omaticaya clan," Joel told People.
- 4/24/2023
- by Akhil Arora
- Slash Film
Freeman Vines, a North Carolina–based artist, guitar maker, and one-time blues musician, thought he’d seen it all: He’d worked for free on a white farm and served jail time for bootlegging. But about five years ago, a man approached Vines with two planks of black walnut wood from which he could make new instruments.
“The only words he said were ‘You might not want that wood, ’cause a man was hung on that tree,'” Vines, now 78, says. “That was the whole conversation of the wood, right there.
“The only words he said were ‘You might not want that wood, ’cause a man was hung on that tree,'” Vines, now 78, says. “That was the whole conversation of the wood, right there.
- 8/26/2020
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Freeman Vines, a North Carolina–based artist, guitar maker, and one-time blues musician, thought he’d seen it all: He’d worked for free on a white farm and served jail time for bootlegging. But about five years ago, a man approached Vines with two planks of black walnut wood from which he could make new instruments.
“The only words he said were ‘You might not want that wood, ’cause a man was hung on that tree,'” Vines, now 78, says. “That was the whole conversation of the wood, right there.
“The only words he said were ‘You might not want that wood, ’cause a man was hung on that tree,'” Vines, now 78, says. “That was the whole conversation of the wood, right there.
- 8/26/2020
- by Griffin Lotz and David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
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