Avatar 2: Kate Winslet revealed she assumed she was ‘dead’ after holding breath for over 7 minutes while filming underwater

Kate Winslet, who plays the Na'vi character Ronal in the long-awaited Avatar sequel, created a new record holding her breath for over 7 minutes filming underwater sequences for James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water.

 

Avatar 2: Kate Winslet revealed she assumed she was ‘dead’ after holding breath for over 7 minutes while filming underwater

 

The Titanic alum revealed that she assumed she was “dead” after coming up for air at the seven-minute, 15-second mark. The actress broke the record once held by Tom Cruise while filming Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation. “I have the video of me surfacing saying, ‘Am I dead, have I died?’ And then going, ‘What was [my time]?'” Winslet shared in a recent interview, according to Indie Wire tabloid.

 

“Straight away I wanted to know my time. And I couldn’t believe it…The next thing I say is, ‘We need to radio set.’ I wanted Jim to know right away.” Director James Cameron quipped, “She’s not competitive at all.” Winslet then clarified that the stunt wasn’t an edict from the director but an opportunity to break her own personal record.

 

“Well, I didn’t have to hold my breath for over seven minutes. It’s just that the opportunity to set a record presented itself. I wanted to break my own record, which was already six minutes and 14 seconds. And I was like, ‘Come on!’ So I smashed my own record by a minute.” As the outlet notes, Cameron was determined to have the water sequences for the sequel be as authentic as possible.

 

Hence, the entire cast for Avatar 2 was instructed in professional scuba diving, and Cameron even developed new technology in order to film motion capture scenes underwater. “I said, ‘It’s not going to work. It’s not going to look real,'” Cameron recalled. “I even let them run a test, where we captured dry for wet, and then we captured in water, a crude level of our in-water capture. And it wasn’t even close.”

 

Speaking of Winslet’s dedication, Cameron previously told The New York Times, “Kate’s a demon for prep, so she latched onto the free diving as something that she could build her character around. Kate’s character is someone who grew up underwater as an ocean-adapted Na’vi — they’re so physically different from the forest Na’vi, that we’d almost classify them as a subspecies. So, she had to be utterly calm underwater, and it turned out that she was a natural.”

 

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