{"id":177435,"date":"2025-12-10T15:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/177435\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:34:07","slug":"sigourney-weaver-talks-avatar-james-cameron-at-red-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/177435\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigourney Weaver Talks \u2018Avatar\u2019 & James Cameron At Red Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSigourney Weaver<\/a> took part in a brief career Q&A session at the Red Sea<\/a> Film Festival this afternoon, during which she praised her Avatar director James Cameron and said she hopes the unique performance capture technology he developed for the animated films can be shared across the industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI look forward to the time when we can share this technology,\u201d Weaver told the audience in Jeddah, adding that Cameron\u2019s tech allows filmmakers to avoid issues around lighting, costume changes, make-up, and \u201call that, you know, waiting for the clouds or waiting for the sun,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt gets rid of it. So it\u2019s a much purer experience for the director and the cast,\u201d Weaver said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tCameron and his filmmaking crew developed a new form of performance capture tech to produce his Avatar films. With complex rigs, the filmmaker can record an actor\u2019s movements live and blend the resulting image with digital creations. Over the years, Cameron has been shy about the specifics of his inventions, and during a recent interview with CBS, he described his hesitance \u201cto pull the curtain back\u201d as a mistake.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFor years, there was this sense that, \u2018Oh, they\u2019re doing something strange with computers and they\u2019re replacing actors,\u2019 when in fact, once you really drill down and you see what we\u2019re doing, it\u2019s a celebration of the actor-director moment, and the actor-to-actor moment. It\u2019s a celebration of, I call it, the sanctity of the actor\u2019s performance moment,\u201d the Titanic filmmaker explained.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNow, go to the other end of the spectrum, and you\u2019ve got generative AI,\u201d he continued, \u201cwhere they can make up a character, they can make up an actor. They can make up a performance from scratch with a text prompt. It\u2019s like, no. That\u2019s horrifying to me. That\u2019s the opposite. That\u2019s exactly what we\u2019re not doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWeaver described Cameron as a genius during the Q&A in Jeddah, but also said the filmmaker is a great actor\u2019s director.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe has a fierce reputation, and he is a perfectionist, but he\u2019s a really playful and funny guy,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe\u2019s so full of surprises, you wouldn\u2019t think that this sort of scientist-inventor who\u2019s such a genius at all this technology would be an actor\u2019s director. When we\u2019re acting, he\u2019s right there with us. He\u2019s not in video village 100 feet away. He has really enhanced the adventure of filmmaking.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAvatar 3<\/a>\u00a0is due in theaters Dec. 19.<\/p>\n

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