Avatar: The Way of Water "Acting Underwater" Featurette Directed by James Cameron and starring Michelle Yeoh, Zoe Saldana, Kate Winslet, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Worthington, Oona Chaplin, Stephen Lang...
Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the planet of Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their planet.
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Something really special happened when we reunited for Avatar 2.
Zoe and me were always just very close and that gave us absolute freedom to just bounce off each other and enjoy the ride.
I don't think they quite realized how much they had been in training for this movie for the past 13 years as parents.
We couldn't have planned it better if I'd said,
Okay, what I need you guys to do is find somebody you really love and get married and have some children and that's your prep for the next movie.
She's now had several children. I've had several children.
When we get back into this world, it's like putting on an old pair of gloves. You just have a trust for each other.
I think they started to get it when they read the script, but I don't think they really got it until they were on set with the young cast that play their children and realized,
Oh yeah, I've said that.
Well, I hate you Tom's Affinity!
Hey, that's enough! Don't make me come over there.
But given Jake and Nateri kids, this one opens up all the trials and tribulations that come with having family.
Now the stakes are higher. Now their children are everything. They've managed to find their own version of happiness.
Until the sky people come back.
Oh my God, the liquid volume.
I was always looking at everything in wonder. Just like, what is this?
If we'd done this on wires, it would look hokey. If we tried to do this any other way instead of being legit, it wouldn't be a James Cameron film.
The underwater performance capture, first of all, it's a huge amount to think about.
So there's not just the physical challenge of holding your breath.
There's then the added challenge of acting out a scene underwater where everything is very different.
You're having to imagine coral reefs. You're having to picture other Na'vi swimming around you.
Then you have the challenge of your movements are very, very different underwater.
Finding that serenity and that calm. So there's all of that to take care of.
That's what you're after, just the truthful sensation. And that truth is what you need to make these movies work.
What Jim wanted to do is give the actors an environment that was going to be as realistic as possible.
Build sets and give them the ability to swim through the water and give it waves and current and everything.
We had decks that had this unistrut system built that were on gantries and chain motors.
So that we could lift them up and build the set on top of it above the water and then lower them back down once the set was built.
That system has the ability to also tilt those platforms.
And a lot of times we will need that relationship with interacted topography.
