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Photo: Frazer Harrison / Getty Images
For: Showbiz
The long-awaited sequel to the film “Avatar” has to raise a lot of money at the box office so that it does not end up becoming a real failure, as its director has repeated several times ) James Cameron over the past few weeks to explain why it has taken so long to shoot and he’s not even sure there will ever be a third installment.
Part of the film’s astronomical budget went to actually shoot underwater, instead of suspending the actors with cables to simulate that they floated, and carry stars of the stature of Sam Worthington , Zoe Saldana , Sigourney Weaver or Kate Winslet to the island of Kauai, Hawaii, to visit the rainforest, where they cooked over bonfires and be They collected the rainwater accumulated on the leaves of the vegetation.
This experience was, for the filmmaker, a “sensory odyssey” with which he hoped the cast would memorize the smell of the terrain around them , how it made them feel and the way they moved through it to later recreate those sensations in a sterile environment when it came time to shoot in front of a green screen. “I told them: ‘Very well, we are going to go up this path and I want you to observe everything you can about how they position their feet and hands when they go up a steep section,” explained Cameron in statements to the portal Variety .
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