Making Of Avatar: Fire And Water

Ral's Tun when she dies. It's an

extraordinary sequence to watch. But you

would not believe what I was acting to.

And even [music] I couldn't believe it.

And I I was thinking, okay, I' got to dig deep here. Dig deep. Use your

imagination.

There are times where I just am in awe at the performers of what they can pull off. We try and give as much as we can,

off. We try and give as much as we can, but she's emoting about the loss of her spirit sister to a minimally sculpted eye. [laughter]

eye. [laughter] She was the composer of songs much revealed. We would sing together.

much revealed. We would sing together.

She waited many breeding cycles to have this calf.

That's very memorable to me. That's the

most extreme version of imagining. It

was It was easier imagining an iceberg passing by. [laughter]

passing by. [laughter] What is this? Don't know. What?

What is this?

I feel her, Dad.

You feel who?

Awah.

Look, the long and short of it is the actor is the foundation of what we do.

It's our job to protect the actor's choices all the way through the pipe.

The human interaction that happens, the emotional interaction, the intimacy and the tension that happens between those actors in that moment is everything like

they have a soul. They are thinking and they have a fully formed character. Zoe

when she steps on stage is Niti. She

basically tries to bring Niri's full life to the character every time. It's

incumbent on us to keep that alive.