{"id":245299,"date":"2026-01-22T01:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/245299\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T01:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:33:16","slug":"james-cameron-says-he-moved-to-new-zealand-for-the-sanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/245299\/","title":{"rendered":"James Cameron says he moved to New Zealand \u2018for the sanity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cNew Zealand had eliminated the virus completely. They actually eliminated the virus twice. The third time, when it showed up in a mutated form, it broke through.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he loved New Zealand because people were \u201csane\u201d, referencing the United States\u2019 comparatively low vaccination rates.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere would you rather live? A place that actually believes in science and is sane, and where people can work together cohesively to a common goal? <\/p>\n
\u201cOr a place where everybody\u2019s at each other\u2019s throats, extremely polarised, turning its back on science and basically would be in utter disarray if another pandemic appears?\u201d<\/p>\n
James Cameron and his wife, Suzy Amis Cameron, have lived on and off in New Zealand since 2011, moving here permanently in 2020. \nPhoto \/ Annaleise Shortland<\/p>\n
Cameron became a New Zealand citizen in August last year after attending a Wellington ceremony.<\/p>\n
Internal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden told the Herald that his permanent residency was positive for the nation.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike thousands of people from across the world who choose to make New Zealand their home each year, I congratulate Mr Cameron on becoming a Kiwi.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think New Zealand is the best little country in the world, and I\u2019m always happy to hear others think so too and wish to build their lives here.\u201d<\/p>\n
The couple live in Roseneath, Wellington, with their three children and own more than 30 properties around Wairarapa.<\/p>\n
Cameron vowed in 2020 that all his future films would be filmed locally, a promise he has kept thus far through the continuation of his Avatar series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cNew Zealand had eliminated the virus completely. They actually eliminated the virus twice. The third time, when it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23607,17517,53314,143463,3936,156,593,2082,692,14054,32033,117,111,139,69,143464,143462,312,147,223,61,80],"class_list":["post-245299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-approach","tag-because","tag-cameron","tag-canadianborn","tag-director","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-for","tag-he","tag-james","tag-moved","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sane","tag-sanity","tag-says","tag-science","tag-the","tag-to","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}