“Avatar 2” is set to reunite Winslet with her “Titanic” director Cameron. Details of Winslet’s character have remained under wraps, although the set photo below makes it appear that she will be playing some kind of underwater creature with giant wings. Winslet is one of the new faces to the “Avatar” franchise in the sequel. Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, CCH Pounder, Stephen Lang, and Sigourney Weaver are all original “Avatar” stars returning for “Avatar 2.”
“I had to learn how to free-dive to play that role in ‘Avatar,’ and that was just incredible,” Winslet said in an interview with THR earlier this month. “My longest breath hold was seven minutes and 14 seconds, like crazy, crazy stuff.” Winslet’s co-star Sigourney Weaver held her breath for six minutes while filming “Avatar 2.” In an interview last week, Weaver learned “to recline on the ocean floor while manta rays glided over her” and trained with “elite military divers so that she could hold her breath, after a big gulp of supplemental oxygen, for more than six minutes.” “I had some concerns,” Weaver said about the stunt work required for the “Avatar” sequels. “But that’s what the training was for. And I really wanted to do it. I didn’t want anyone to think, ‘Oh, she’s old, she can’t do this.’” Disney is scheduled to release “Avatar 2” in theaters on December 16, 2022. “Avatar 3” will follow with a theatrical release on December 20, 2024. The fourth and fifth films are due in 2026 and 2028.
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