{"id":73070,"date":"2025-10-14T02:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/73070\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T02:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:37:07","slug":"zoe-saldana-wants-james-cameron-to-make-doc-about-making-of-avatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/73070\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Salda\u00f1a Wants James Cameron to Make Doc About ‘Making of Avatar’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tZoe Salda\u00f1a<\/a> wants audiences to truly understand the skill and talent that go into motion capture performances, like in James Cameron<\/a>\u2018s Avatar<\/a> movies.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Oscar-winning actress shared during a recent interview with Alicia Keys for Beyond Noise\u00a0<\/a>that the filmmaker \u201cis considering a documentary about the making of Avatar \u2014 finally giving us a chance to explain, in a meticulous way, why performance capture is the most empowering form of acting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actress, who plays Neytiri in the 2009 pic and 2022\u2019s Avatar: The Way of Water<\/a>, expressed the importance of giving context to the type of work as \u201cit gives us the credit, the ability to own 100 percent of our performance on screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWith animation, you might go into the studio for [a few] sessions; that\u2019s as much as they\u2019ll need you for the whole movie. You go into a studio, however you\u2019re dressed, and you lend your voice, right?\u201d Salda\u00f1a continued. \u201cPerformance capture means that Avatar wouldn\u2019t exist if Sigourney Weaver, Sam Worthington, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet, myself, and the entire cast didn\u2019t get up and put those dots on our faces.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe put on that little unitard with all those dots on it, and step into a volume \u2014 that\u2019s what we call the set \u2014 that\u2019s rigged on the ceiling, with all these cameras in measured positions,\u201d she added. \u201cThey\u2019re all pointing into this space that finds us, and feeds that information into the system that is Pandora.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSalda\u00f1a has been a longtime champion of motion capture acting, and previously called out the Academy Awards for not recognizing those performances<\/a>. While the Oscars honor visual effects in films, both CGI and practical, the actors behind CGI characters are typically overlooked from the acting categories.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt takes an average of seven years between [each Avatar film],\u201d she said to Beyond Noise. \u201cFrom the archery, the martial arts, the free diving, the scuba diving \u2014 so that you can hold your breath underwater for longer than five minutes \u2014 to the language [Cameron] conceived out of thin air, to physically training with former gymnasts, circus performers, and acrobats so you can learn how to walk like an extraterrestrial human species\u2026 That\u2019s all us, and a group of incredible stunt actors that make our characters feel bionic. God bless them. With the technology that Jim creates, he gives the artist the power of complete ownership. It\u2019s beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCameron\u2019s Avatar won three Oscars, including best cinematography, best visual effects and best art direction. <\/p>\n

\n\tSalda\u00f1a also reprises her role of Neytiri in Avatar: Fire and Ash<\/a><\/a>, which hits theaters on Dec. 19, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zoe Salda\u00f1a wants audiences to truly understand the skill and talent that go into motion capture performances, like…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[30584,30585,32202,146,85,46,30586,51968],"class_list":["post-73070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-avatar","tag-avatar-fire-and-ash","tag-avatar-the-way-of-water","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-james-cameron","tag-zoe-saldau00f1a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}