Thirteen years later James Cameron broke the cashier Avatar (2009) and that he destroyed his own record titanic (1997), the 2022 sequel will premiere in theaters, which was the hardest thing Sam Worthington has ever done. And it is that the Canadian director, since he triumphantly came out with a film about the tragedy of the famous transatlantic ship, is taking the time to prepare his new film proposals and realize your ambitions.
If the development of the necessary technology offers us the fabulous spectacle of three-dimensional images generated by a computer from motion capturedelayed the release of the original pro adventure Na’vi on the planet Pandora the challenge is the same, but under water Part of the reason we’ve waited so long per Avatar 2. And the reason is that the Australian actor sweats a greasy drop in some scenes of his filming.
“It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do,” said Sam Worthington.who played the role of Jake Sully – US Navy veteran, sixth Toruk Makto and olo’eiktan or the leader of the Omaticaya clan—, in an interview for Empire. “You are dealing with the limitations of freediving, the limitations of underwater motion capture and trying to keep the emotional journey alive while being natural. you fight the fear of death“.
Holding your breath on the set of Avatar 2
In the words of James Cameron, “It was undeniably clear that [Avatar 2] it could only be done in water.” Because, “besides, the movie is called water path [El sentido del agua]it’s not called The path of dry to wet [El camino de lo seco por lo mojado]”. So, during the recording, the performers had to get into about three and a half million liters in the tank with a wave generator to simulate the ocean currents of an alien world.
“We couldn’t let the light from above fall directly into the water, otherwise it would deprive us of the ability to capture [las imágenes en movimiento]. And we couldn’t cover the tank with a tarpaulin because it wouldn’t be safe,” explains Richard Baynham, creative head of visual effects at Lightstorm in 2018. Avatar 2. “So we put hundreds of small white polymer beads in the water, which scatter the light, but [a la vez] they let the actors go out to breathe“.
To do this, Sam Worthington and his teammates traveled to Hawaii, the Pacific Islands to train and dive for a while with bated breath. “We met a manta ray and I became a five-year-old boy,” says Cliff Curtis. And the one who endured the most of them in apnea It was Kate Winslet. “Seven minutes and fourteen seconds, baby!” he announces. “But the most amazing thing for me, as a middle-aged woman, was to learn something not just new, but superhuman!”
