James Cameron Reveals Zoe Saldaña & Kate Winslet’s Secret Avatar Characters

James Cameron has revealed that Zoe Saldaña and Kate Winslet actually play multiple characters in the Avatar franchise.

Avatar: Fire and Ash was released in the United States by 20th Century Studios last month. A sequel to Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water, the movie sees Zoe Saldaña reprise her role as Neytiri, while Kate Winslet returns as Ronal.

What did James Cameron say about Zoe Saldaña & Kate Winslet’s Avatar characters?

During The Hollywood Reporter’s Director Roundtable, Cameron explained how Saldaña and Winslet actually play multiple characters over the course of the Avatar franchise.

“The thing that’s so lovely about performance capture is that people can play other characters,” Cameron said. “Like, if Zoe got bored on the first film, she’d just play someone else for a scene. Kate did that, too. She didn’t have any lines for a moment; in a scene, she’d just play somebody else. I think Kate’s got about three characters, and Zoe has got three or four.”

Cameron also said about performance capture, “We also have this actual troupe, where we call them the troupe. I call them the Swiss Army knife, jack of all trades actors. They might play an old man one day, a boy the next day, and a male warrior the next day. They can do anything. They’re just constantly changing hats, changing characters. It’s very egalitarian.

“When you’re on a movie with a big movie star, everybody knows when it’s time for Tom Cruise’s close-up. The world kind of stops while everything gets ready. In performance capture, we’re just capturing the authenticity of the moment between human beings, and we figure out all the coverage later. That’s all later. There’s no close-up, baby. So everybody is kind of equal.”

The first two Avatar movies are available to stream on Disney+, while Avatar 3 is still playing in theaters.

Originally reported by Brandon Schreur at SuperHeroHype.

Source: Comingsoon.net