The director and actors discuss his typically gruelling film-making process, including learning to free dive, the tech v nature message of the new films – and why there’s still room for ‘big boy toys’
, the first of four planned Avatar sequels, jointly estimated to be costing more than $1bn to make. It is also three and a quarter hours long, so epically proportioned business as usual, you might say., and much has changed in the interim. Streaming has decimated cinema; Disney has bought up everything ; and an entire cycle of superhero movies has captured the blockbuster territory Cameron once occupied.
Moving on from Avatar’s forest setting, The Way of Water unveils a whole new aquatic ecosystem, populated by bespoke sea animals and a Pacific Islander-like tribe of Na’vi.
Even more of a surprise is the participation of Kate Winslet. After Titanic, Winslet said of Cameron: “He has a temper like you wouldn’t believe … You’d have to pay me.” Whether it was the money or the time – Winslet was 21 back then; now she is 47 – the scars of Titanic seem to have healed. In fact, she and Cameron remained friends, she says, explaining how, at an event in 2014, he said to her, “at some point, we have to get you big and blue”.
There were some similarities with making Titanic, she acknowledges, “in the sense that there were so many actors, and we really had to stick together because it was so hard for all of us. And obviously, the shoot was incredibly long and there was an enormous amount of pressure on everybody.” But the infamous Cameron temper seems to have gone. “He’s definitely mellowed,” she says. “I think he said that about himself, too. He’s just a more chilled-out guy these days.
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