James Cameron announced last month his long-in-the-works “Avatar 2” was “100 percent complete,” while a second sequel was close behind at “95 percent completion.” Sigourney Weaver is one of the franchise’s returning actors, reuniting with Cameron after “Aliens” and “Avatar,” and she reveals in a new interview with The New York Times some of the demanding prep work that was required to pull off the “Avatar” sequels. Cameron has said the first sequel explores the underwater worlds of the fictional Pandora, which forced Weaver and the actors to be able to perform while submerged.
Weaver told the Times she spent a large part of her prep work deep sea diving in Key West, Florida, and in Hawaii, where she would “recline on the ocean floor while manta rays glided over her.” The actress also trained with “elite military divers so that she could hold her breath, after a big gulp of supplemental oxygen,...
Weaver told the Times she spent a large part of her prep work deep sea diving in Key West, Florida, and in Hawaii, where she would “recline on the ocean floor while manta rays glided over her.” The actress also trained with “elite military divers so that she could hold her breath, after a big gulp of supplemental oxygen,...
- 10/20/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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