He said: \u201cNow, later, we have children, we have a family, we\u2019ve got roots in Malibu and Santa Barbara, that conversation had to be amended slightly, but we did say after Avatar, let\u2019s make this happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cameron, who has also directed blockbusters, including 1997\u2019s Titanic, and 1986\u2019s Aliens, said \u201cNew Zealand had eliminated the virus completely twice\u201d before a \u201cthird time when it showed up in a mutated form, it broke through\u201d.<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cBut fortunately, they already had a 98% vaccination rate. This is why I love New Zealand. People there are, for the most part, sane as opposed to the United States, where you had a 62% vaccination rate, and that\u2019s going down \u2013 going the wrong direction.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Terminator director then asked: \u201cWhere would you rather live?<\/p>\n
\u201cA 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
During the chat, journalist Bensinger, 39, hailed the US as \u201ca fantastic place to live\u201d, to which Cameron interjected: \u201cIs it?\u201d<\/p>\n
At another point in the discussion, Bensinger noted New Zealand\u2019s stunning natural beauty, but Cameron added: \u201cI\u2019m not there for scenery, I\u2019m there for the sanity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said: \u201cNow, later, we have children, we have a family, we\u2019ve got roots in Malibu and Santa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17517,9442,53314,8607,81317,3936,2109,142211,14054,32033,2686,117,111,43,139,69,90,1523,13218,1341,5034,131,61,80],"class_list":["post-245795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-because","tag-better","tag-cameron","tag-covid","tag-covid19","tag-director","tag-family","tag-handled","tag-james","tag-moved","tag-moving","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-over","tag-pandemic","tag-permanently","tag-response","tag-than","tag-to","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245795","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=245795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}