This Christmas we finally return to Pandora with “Avatar: The Sense of Water”. We viewers return and surprisingly Sigourney Weaver returns too, despite the fact that her character, Dr. Grace Augustine, met a fateful fate in the first episode. Instead, this time she will play Kiri, the adopted daughter of Jake (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña)..
As we already knew, the cast of ‘Avatar 2’ had to go through exhaustive training to tackle a fairly intense take. To make it easier to shoot underwater, the actors had to learn to hold their breath for several minutes.. Sigourney Weaver was able to spend six minutes underwater before she needed to catch her breath.
But underwater breathing was just one of the skills the 72-year-old actress had to learn. In an interview with Interview Magazine, she admits she had to learn parkour: “I know that (James Cameron) will present me with some very unique challenges and that he won’t hold back in getting what he wants. In many cases, my reaction is ‘I can’t do that.’ This is because I know they will tease me endlessly because of how cowardly I am, but I think everyone likes working with Jim because he asks a lot of you. In ‘Avatar: Water Sense’ I was older than many other actors and we had to do a lot of parkour. We had to do burpees. We had to do a free dive. Don’t you love those jobs where you have to learn something weird but will keep it for the rest of your life? In particular, for freediving, I am grateful to have spent a year doing it “..
Six and a half minutes without breathing
The actress talked again about those six and a half minutes that she manages to keep underwater and how she reached that spectacular milestone: “Our professor, Kirk Krack, who teaches the Marines, taught us some diaphragmatic breathing exercises. We performed them, I believe, with at least 50% oxygen. What we normally breathe is 30% oxygen, so you have the advantage of having more oxygen in your tissues, and then you are very still, you do not move, you hold your breath My husband is from Hawaii and he is a great swimmer and surfer, we did the training together and one day we held our breath for six minutes and average. ” Kirk couldn’t believe it. Neither did we, but it was his training. You learn that you won’t die if you don’t catch your breath. You learn to tell the, as he calls it, ‘smiling bad’ who wants you to breathe: ‘yes, yes, I’m doing it, see you later.’ everything is psychological. It’s very, very interesting. “.
“Avatar: Sense of Water” will be released in theaters on December 16th. On September 30, “Avatar” will be re-released in Spanish theaters to refresh it before the sequel.
Source: E Cartelera
