James Cameron on finding an actor to play an armored alien whale and how creating Avatar: The Way Of Water is like Jenga
were added in post-production, Dalton still had a bit more to work with than, say,acting troupe pretended to be a whale while they shot Dalton’s mocap.We have an acting troupe that surrounds our key cast, and they fill in. They’ll play members of the crowd, or
—they’ll wear many, many hats. I think Kevin [Dornan], we counted 22 or 23 characters that he plays in this film, and there are other members of this troupe that do similar things. So Kevin put his hand up to play Payakan, and I said ‘Just vocalize the way you think Payakan might vocalize. It won’t necessarily be that in the end, but express your emotion.’
Lo’ak is mostly talking to Payakan’s eye, so Kevin would just get where Payakan’s eye is supposed to be and go ‘[whale noise],It sounds kind of dumb, but it’s the consensus, right? Britain was there, and he’d be balling, he’d be pleading with him, and there’s scenes yet to come, beyond what’s in this film, but they’ve formed a relationship. It’s about letting your relationship put you there emotionally.”was something that Cameron, as well as stars Sam Worthington and Stephen Lang , stressed throughout their conversation.I’m a pretty logical person, so when I’m writing I get hung up on logic, and I gotta justify everything and set it all up. And we go through the shooting process, and then the editing process, and I wind up taking a lot of things out,” Cameron shared.
When you’re cutting the movie… it’s not about length as much as about speed and the progression of ideas. You keep taking things out, and my logical brain keeps saying ‘How are they going to understand that?’ But you do, because you feel it.”
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