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NARRATOR: It's finally here.

It's the gift that keeps on giving.

NARRATOR: Thirteen years after Avatar.

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Whoo!

NARRATOR: Its sequel is ready to take you
even further.

What will audiences see
in this film

that they've never seen in a movie before?

You show me one image
from this film

that you've seen before,
and I'll give you ten bucks.

NARRATOR: Tonight, we're taking you
behind the scenes,

to the magic of Pandora.

When I met Jim, he said,
"Do you want to fall in love

with a beautiful nine foot tall
blue woman?"

And I said, "Yeah, mate,
no worries."

And now they're not just
two partners on the run.

Wherever we go,
this family is our fortress.

ZOE: Now, it's two partners and children
on the run.

NARRATOR: And they're on the run,
underwater.

BAILEY: I wanted to avoid it
in the beginning.

It's nerve-wracking
holding your breath!

NARRATOR: Now, we're going
inside that tank.

We were competing who was gonna
hold their breath longer.

Yes, man, look at that!

NARRATOR: The unsinkable Kate Winslet

back with director James Cameron,

25 years after Titanic.

It's better than being in a corset
for seven months

on a sinking ship, I promise you that.

NARRATOR: Sigourney Weaver,
time-warping like you can't imagine.

You know, I was thinking,
how can I get Sigourney back

in this damn movie?

He said, "Come on, we both
know you're 14 at heart,

so I don't think this is going to be
a problem for you."

NARRATOR: Now, the cast is taking you
to their "Blue carpet" premiere.

Come with me.

NARRATOR: For the most anticipated
movie sequel ever?

Avatar: The Way Of Water is...

Worth the wait.

NARRATOR: Here's Chris Connelly.

[indistinct chattering]

WOMAN 1 ON TV: Avatar which raked in
75 million dollars...

MAN 1 ON TV: A record weekend
at the country's movie theaters.

WOMAN 2 ON TV: Avatar shoots to the top
the box office this weekend.

NARRATOR: When Avatar first hit
theaters in December of 2009...

Yeah, check it out!

NARRATOR: No one had seen
anything like it...

Oh, my God.

NARRATOR: By 2010, it was as if
everyone in the world had seen it.

I see you.

I see you.

JAMES: I remember, you know,
I worked on that film

for about three years
before I saw one shot finished.

We had no guarantee
that it was going to work.

So, it was a giant leap of faith
you know?

And then for that to-to be
fulfilled and for people

to embrace it felt great.

NARRATOR: Years earlier,
writer/director/producer

James Cameron had conquered
Hollywood with Titanic.

This is just pure bliss.

NARRATOR: Now it was happening again.

I remember Jim telling us
to leave town

when the movie came out
and, you know don't have friends

that tell us about
box office receipts.

I disappeared and when I came
back into society,

life had changed 180
and people looked at you different.

NARRATOR: Getting pop culture shoutouts
from the men and women of SNL.

I choose you.

And I choose you, Neytiri.

[audience laughing]

NARRATOR: An homage
from The Simpsons...

[instrumental music]

plus talk shows.

How's it going there, Loki?

Avatar hit a worldwide record.

I mean, it was the fastest-growing film
to hit a billion dollars.

And hit a billion dollars
in 19 days.

That's colossal.

NARRATOR: Avatar became
the top-grossing film of all time.

Its mix of live-action
and performance-capture

a cinematic singularity in 3D.

Amazing, isn't it?

NARRATOR: Its ground-breaking,
breathtaking visuals

introducing viewers to Pandora.

You are ready.

NARRATOR: Zoe Saldana's Neytiri
and the rest of the Na'vi,

guides to a glorious world
where magical possibility

and harmony with nature
is beset by humans.

-Fire.
-Firing.

ZOE: I feel like it was the first time,
at least for audiences

like myself, where we were
hearing the conversation

around climate change

and given a clear picture
of what could happen.

NARRATOR: The result was
an action-filled thrill ride

set in a place so idyllic...

that just like Sam Worthington's
Jake Sully...

Welcome to your new body, Jake.

NARRATOR: ...some never wanted
to leave it,

a feeling shared by some Avatar fans,

as articulated during this sequence

of HBO's How to with John Wilson.

I have this serial track record
of just trying to escape my reality.

And, uh, Avatar provided that escapism

in a way that I had never really
experienced before.

NARRATOR: A smash around the world
and a Disney world attraction...

ALL: Welcome to Pandora!

NARRATOR: It would be such a success
that Cameron mulled walking away

from moviemaking forever.

You could have dropped the mic and said,
"I'm done with filmmaking."

Why did you want to get back in the chair
and be a storyteller again?

At certain point,
I had to face that crossroads.

You know, do I want to do
another Avatar movie?

Do I want to invite lightning to come
and strike the same place again?

Of course, my final answer was
"Go big or go home."

NARRATOR: Cameron did both.

Resettling in New Zealand
and deciding

to expand the franchise
to as many as five films.

And expanding the environments
of the first Avatar,

where Jim Cameron
has always been drawn to,

in the movies and in real life...

into the deep.

JAMES: I thought, "Alright, if I'm
going to go down this rabbit hole,

let's see how deep we can go with it,

metaphorically and-and physically,

because it obviously took us
into the ocean.

NARRATOR: Now, in Avatar:
The Way Of Water,

he's giving his beloved characters
a family.

I know one thing.

[sobbing]

Wherever we go,
this family is our fortress.

ZOE: Now they're not just, you know,
two partners on the run.

Now it's two partners
and children on the run.

So, the heart is much more
compromised.

I don't want to be late
for my own party.

NARRATOR: Years after Avatar's end,

The Way Of Water
finds Jake and Neytiri,

the lovers and heroes of the first film,

tending to a flock of children.

What was important to you
about it being a blended family?

It's really a mixed-race family
if you think about that dynamic.

You know, Jake is-is essentially
partially human.

He has a human mind in a Na'vi body,
but it's really an Avatar body.

And Neytiri is a full-blooded Na'vi

and so how does their community
look upon them

and more importantly,
their children?

NARRATOR: The responsibilities
of parenthood

affecting their response to crisis.

JAMES: The humans have come back,
and here they are having to go war

pick up their weapons again.

Now they've got children.
What does that look like?

I think it speaks to everyone
because everyone has a family.

I think it's about the lengths
that people will go

to make sure your family
is safe and protected.

JAMES: They're forced to leave
Neytiri's home.

They wind up taken in
by a sea clan.

We called it the fish
out of water story.

They have to learn
how to adapt to being in water,

just as our actors did.

NARRATOR: Putting that family
beneath the waves

would require major advances
in filmmaking.

And performers who were up
for the unique challenge.

I never get intimidated
by Jim's crazy ideas.

I think that you always
get inspired by them.

You can give me a two...
a close... a loose shot.

SAM: He doesn't have the answers.

He has his notions of
what he wants to achieve

and then we become the Guinea pigs.

It's very hard to say no to Jim.

"No, I'd rather not do that.
No, I'm afraid to do that."

These are words you just don't
use with him.

Because he believes
you can do it, and kind of

because he believes you can do it,
you go, "Well, I better do it."

We really were
well-trained for this.

I think what makes Jim
special are his dreams.

He dreams these things,
and then he has the acumen

to make them a reality.

NARRATOR: And who better to help those
dreams take shape

than the actress who joined with him
25 years ago

for one of cinema's best-loved stories?

Only...

JAMES: So Zoe trusts me, Sam trusts me,

Sigourney trusts me.

And, uh, I didn't know where I was going
to stand with, uh, with Kate.

They didn't know if she had any
reticence about wanting to...

to act with me again.

NARRATOR: Kate Winslet's response,
more on that later,

would bring much of what's new
about Avatar: The Way Of Water

into clear focus,
part of Cameron's own evolution.

One of the things about
Jim Cameron is that

on a movie set, I think there are few jobs
that he can't do

better or as well as anybody.

One of them is acting.

And the other one is catering.

NARRATOR: Cutting-edge moviemaking

with an epic budget
and mega expectations...

its first trailer earning a ridiculous

148 million views
in the first 24 hours.

It's yet another high-risk,
high-reward moment

for James Cameron.

You know, it's like working
on a moon mission.

We spent five years building
this rocket,

and it's either gonna blow up
on the pad

or it's gonna go to the moon.

And I couldn't,
I couldn't call that right now.

NARRATOR: As his unprecedented
achievement

awaits a world very different
from the one

that welcomed Avatar in 2009,

can the Way Of Water exert the same pull

on the hearts and minds
of moviegoers?

Cameron says yes.

What kind of story did you want
to give the world

on this second Avatar movie?

I think there's a conscience
of the first film

which I wanted to continue,
which is around

our remaining natural spaces

and how civilization
is encroaching on them.

But I also just really fell in
love with these characters,

Jake and Neytiri, and I thought,
what would that love story

look like 15 years later?

Then, how much more powerful
a story could it be?

NARRATOR: She is every bit the beating
heart of the Avatar films.

Neytiri, as portrayed via
performance capture

for director James Cameron

by the extraordinary Zoe Saldana.

ZOE: The cadence of the scenes
and how the story is carried along

is absolutely powerful.

NARRATOR: From J.J. Abrams' Star Trek
films...

We're receiving a stress signal
from the USS Kobayashi Maru.

NARRATOR: To James Gunn's
Guardians Of The Galaxy series.

You have the bearing
of a man of honor.

NARRATOR: Saldana has been
a go-to talent

for franchise directors
like Cameron.

All of whom, she believes,
recognize in her a rebel spirit.

I think that there's probably
something that they see in me

that they see in themselves.

I hear words like an outsider,
a misfit, uh, an underdog.

And these were words that I
would use to describe myself

when I was younger.

KELLEY: What I love about Zoe is that
for better or for worse,

she has a voice and she is not afraid
to use it.

She is very strong,
and she's very confident.

Above all of that,
she's extremely courageous.

ZOE: As a daughter of immigrants,
as a woman of color,

it gave me an empty,
vast space

where I can be anything that I wanted.

But I needed the gatekeepers
of these worlds

to believe in me
and, and they did.

This is our home.

JAMES: Zoe came back
and I think on her very first day

she said one of my favorite lines
in the film.

And I was like,
"She's back. Neytiri's back."

NARRATOR: So is Jake Sully.

I got no plan, but I can
protect this family,

that I can do!

NARRATOR: Leaving his human form behind.

Becoming a father.

I feel her, dad.

SAM: First one he was stuck
between his allegiances

with the humans and his allegiances
with the Na'vi.

Protect the people.

This time, he's stuck between
his allegiances with

remaining the legendary Na'vi warrior

or the responsibilities to his family.

NARRATOR: As an actor, Sam Worthington
has starred in another series, too.

He's featured in three black ops
video games

in the Call Of Duty franchise.

As Avatar's leading man,

he thrives working
for James Cameron.

Look, Jim's this guy, I've always said
I'm, I'm his soldier.

Jim's this director I'll do anything for,

but he's in the trench right there
next to me.

Well, Sam is his own soldier,
He can project incredible power.

Incredible strength,
incredible leadership

just through his voice.

If the people harbor us,
they will die.

And there was more of a consonance
between the character

an-and Sam's real life because now
he's a father of, of two boys.

I need you to be strong,
strong heart.

JAMES: In many ways she and Sam
are the rock, the core of the story.

But there's almost a whole act

that leaves the parents behind
and follows the kids.

NARRATOR: For The Way Of Water's
family members,

team Avatar conducted
an extensive search

to find the next generation
of Pandora inhabitants.

I see you.

MARGERY: We had over 15,000 submissions.

Keep up, forest boy.

MARGERY: 4,662 were seen.

And we winnowed that down
and 16 kids came in for tests.

NARRATOR: To play Jake and Neytiri's
first born,

the UK's Jamie Flatters stood out
with this original monologue.

Now I can join the armed forces,
pay tax, and get married.

But I can't vote.

NARRATOR: Entitled "It's time to speak"

and got the part.

When I flew to LA
for the final round I was told,

"Look, you're, you're just an option.

You're going to be too old
to do this."

And when you're 16 to be told
you're too old, you get very

you know, you're in crisis, right?

I remember getting the
audition notice February of 2017,

and being so excited that I showed up
a week early by accident.

NARRATOR: An actress
and singer/songwriter.

♪ California sun ♪

NARRATOR: Trinity Bliss was just a baby
when the first film came out.

She's playing Jake and Neytiri's
youngest child, Tuk.

TRINITY: Having Jim as the director,
he really takes the time

to explain to you about
the Pandora around us,

so we each can really transfer ourselves

into this amazing world that he's created.

She's another one of these just kind of
luminous people, you know?

She never missed a line.
Never missed a mark.

And yet, at the same time,
she was completely spontaneous

and would just make stuff up
that was completely in character.

And some of it's in the, in the movie.

NARRATOR: And then there was New Yorker
Bailey Bass.

Now 19, a model since she was just 2.

I didn't have much experience,
and because of that,

I thought my audition was terrible.

NARRATOR: Now playing Tsireya,
the daughter of her clan's leader.

Avatar was my, like, big,
oh, my gosh, this is happening,

I'm becoming an actor.

NARRATOR: This role would be
a life-changer for Bailey

in more ways than one.

I didn't grow up... I had much
when it comes to love,

but in terms of, like, financially,
we didn't have much.

But we always got through it

because my mom's just the best.

And then I'm sitting in my mom's car,

and I start tearing up

because I reached this moment in my life,
in my career

where I can take care of my family.

NARRATOR: Virginian, Jack Champion,
who plays Spider,

had been in a blockbuster before.

That's him riding a bike in 2019's

Avengers: Endgame.

JACK: I'm in it for, like, ten seconds

and I worked with Paul Rudd.

I was like, hey, man,
I'm going to fly to LA

to do this screen test for Avatar.

And he's like, "Oh, that's good, kid.
You know, I wish you luck."

And then I saw him again like,
"Dude, like, I did it."

And he was like, "Oh, my gosh."

I'm taller than him now.

NARRATOR: On set, it was Trinity and Jack
taking care

of The Ways Of Water's swear jar.

Designed to keep
the language on-set

appropriate for young ears.

TRINITY: An F-bomb was $5 [bleep]

and S-bomb was $1 [bleep]

Sam, Slang? Oh geez.

Sam was
our primary contributor

and he'd just come to me and say

"Can I start the day
with negative $40?"

But he actually
tried really hard.

He replaced some words
with "hot dog."

NARRATOR: The money raised
went to a canine clinic

but, ah, what could
have been.

I'm wondering if you made any
donations to the swear jar, Jim?

I could've funded
this movie

if I was donating
to the swear jar.

[chuckles]

They're not aggressive.

Relax, marine.

NARRATOR: Attuned to the wonders
of Pandora

imbued with a reverence
for the Na'vi.

Dr. Grace Augustine
in the first Avatar...

Come on, Grace, move!

...sought to ensure
their safety.

One idiot with a gun
is enough.

NARRATOR: While in human form...

Relations with the indigenous
are only getting worse.

Yeah, that tends to happen
when you use

machine guns on them.

NARRATOR: This tough-talking scientist
worked to foil efforts

to dislodge the Na'vi.

Parker, there is time
to salvage the situation.

Shut your piehole!

Or what, Ranger Rick?

You going to shoot me?

NARRATOR: Sigourney Weaver,
three-time Oscar nominated

actress, honored for playing
another scientist

Dian Fossey
in Gorillas In The Mist

If I ever see you or
your meat wagon again

you'll be lucky if you don't end up
in a wooden box.

NARRATOR: Bad boss Katharine Parker
in Working Girl...

And this woman
is my secretary.

She's not.

Oh, no? Ask her.

NARRATOR: And Ellen Ripley
in the 1986 sequel Aliens

written and directed
by James Cameron

who 36 years ago, gave her
a career-defining line.

Get away from her, you bitch!

NARRATOR: Securing Ripley's place
in the top rank of action heroes

female or male, and a creative
partnership with Cameron

through the first Avatar
and even beyond.

There's so many things
I admire about him.

SIGOURNEY: He's incredibly generous.
He believes in us.

He's a great friend.

You know, I think if I was
really in trouble, I'd call Jim.

NARRATOR: Even between these friends,
there's a secret

that's never been shared.

How long had you known Jim
Cameron before he found out

that you had begun your career

with a project called "Titanic?"

I don't think I've ever
told him about it.

[laughing]

NARRATOR: Her Titanic, a comedy, a play
produced off-Broadway in 1976.

He knows nothing about it.

It wasn't quite as big a hit
as his movie.

Grace...

NARRATOR: When the first Avatar
ended, it seemed like

Dr. Grace Augustine
had breathed her last.

Grace...

NARRATOR: A lunch found actor
and director hoping to reteam

on the upcoming Avatars.

What do you remember
about that lunch?

[laughing]

Well, I'd already
made up my mind.

I just needed to get her
to agree.

NARRATOR: Cameron
giving Jake and Neytiri

an adopted
teenage daughter.

Kiri.

JAMES: The obvious choice to play
that character was Sigourney.

And in fact, I wrote it for her.

You know, I was thinking,
"How can I get Sigourney

back in this damn movie?"

How did he tell you he wanted
you to play someone

who was 14 years old?

Well, you know, he said

"Come on.
We both know you're 14 at heart."

"So, I don't think this is going
to be a problem for you."

NARRATOR: Playing a character
decades younger

it's perhaps her biggest acting
challenge ever.

SIGOURNEY: I don't think
he would've offered it to me

if we didn't know each other

if he didn't know
what a goofball I was.

And, basically, that is who I am.

And you know, Kiri is much more
perhaps serious.

-Earnest.
-Earnest, yeah, and searching.

Hi, mom!

NARRATOR: Just as her teen character
Kiri is searching

Weaver could recall
grappling with her own

life issues
as she was growing up.

SIGOURNEY: I had, as many of us do,
a very memorable adolescence.

I was this tall when I was 11.
I remember all of it so well.

And just wanting to shrink,
wanting to disappear.

I was terribly shy.

So that sense of alienation
when you're young

that sense
of, like, conflict with your mom

maybe, or... How did those
things sort of come to play?

I remember all of that
very vividly.

I think children feel things
so strongly.

And, I think Kiri takes things
very much to heart.

So what does her heartbeat
sound like?

Mighty.

NARRATOR: Kiri's look, based on an
adjustment that Weaver suggested

to Cameron, who'd initially
envisioned her as a poised

note-perfect teen version
of Neytiri.

And I said, "That's not Kiri."

You know, Neytiri is like this
incredible goddess, warrior

who's so perfect,
who's so beautiful.

You know, she can do anything.

I'm telling you that as a 13,
14-year-old girl, I don't ever

imagine that I'm going to be
anything like that

and I'd rather not try.

CHRIS: And he heard you
when you said that?

SIGOURNEY: He heard.
It went from this very

composed-looking
young woman

to what they call awkward Kiri.

The challenge for you is that
you were acting along with

other young people who actually
are children right now.

May I just say how grateful
I am to all the kids

for accepting me
as one of the group.

I did all the physical
preparation with them.

I was determined not to be this
old lady who couldn't do.

NARRATOR: So, she committed fully.

Doing parkour alongside
her real-life co-stars.

Now more of a mouth open,
kinda, hah!

NARRATOR: Like Jack Champion,
whom she'd auditioned with.

She was the most warm,
welcoming person, and made me

feel really like, okay, we're
having fun, instead of, like

this is an audition.

It was one of the most
amazing experiences of my life

because here is this beautiful
boy who, we just grab

each other's hands
and I fell in love

with Jack then and even though
now he's a huge tall man

that 12-year-old will always be dear
to my heart.

I forget that I'm working
with Sigourney

and she just becomes Kiri,
the character.

NARRATOR: A character born
of a unique trust

between actor and director.

Jim gave me total freedom.
And I just would let Kiri out.

At this point in my work

I know just to, to put a lot of work

and thought in,
and then you

just get out of the way
of the character.

And so, I, I really wasn't
driving this thing.

SIGOURNEY: She was pretty much
driving it.

And I was, you know,
running after her.

Alright, the moment
of truth.

Somebody's life is about
to change.

NARRATOR: One life surely did
when Kate Winslet was cast

by James Cameron in Titanic.

I feel like this man gave me
opportunity

and belief in myself.

Because when you're
a young actor, it's terrifying.

NARRATOR: Up to that point, she'd been
an up-and-coming British film actress,

known for
critically-acclaimed movies

Heavenly Creatures.

It's all frightfully romantic.

And Sense And Sensibility.

Then in 1997, Titanic made
Kate Winslet, at just 22

into a movie star.

NEWS REPORTER 1: Titanic is expected
to cruise past the $200 million

mark at the box office
tomorrow.

NEWS REPORTER 2: The Oscars crowd
is in a frenzy!

NEWS REPORTER 3: Are you big fans
of Kate Winslet?

ALL: Yes!

KATE: It is a very kind of unreal
feeling and without sounding daft,

I do kind of think, how come
this has happened to me?

NARRATOR: Much of that with
Titanic

had to do with the work ethic
she'd displayed.

When did you sort of learn
how strong you were?

Well, I've always had stamina.

[gasping]
Ah!

People have always said that
about me.

Like, "Oh, God, Kate,
you're so..."

What is it that people always say to me,
"Oh, she's a trooper!"

They always say that to me.

They've been saying
that to me for years.

NARRATOR: As she discussed with
Stephen Colbert back in 2017...

-You were really cold?
-Yeah, I was really [bleep] cold!

Kate Winslet.

NARRATOR: An A-lister, she'd win
a best actress Oscar in 2009

for The Reader.

I think I was probably eight years old
and staring in the bathroom mirror

and this would have been
a shampoo bottle.

Well, it's not a shampoo bottle now!

NARRATOR: Then, two decades after Titanic,
a familiar face

resurfaced with a new project.

Kate had been rather public
about the stress on her

on Titanic.

I mean, she and I have been pals
since then.

We've buried that hatchet,
you know, 20 years ago.

But I didn't know that
she was going to say yes to this.

JAKE: Let's get it done.

NARRATOR: This was a chance
to work together again.

A proffered role for Winslet
in the Avatar saga.

KATE: I play Ronal.

Jim described her as being
the fearless, tenacious warrior

goddess, leader
of the water tribe.

And I'm just like,
tick, tick, tick, tick.

You're the first director
she's ever worked with more than once.

I didn't even realize that
until a few days ago

somebody mentioned it to me.

So, I guess we can drive a stake
through that old dumb myth.

I was just excited. Yeah.
My children were like...

"Oh, mum, you have to do it. You have to
do it. You have to do it."

I said, "Okay, okay.
You know, we'll read the script."

It was almost like they didn't
care what the script was like!

NARRATOR: This second Avatar film
and those still to come reunite

Winslet with Cameron
and the water,

with some key differences this time.

KATE:You know, Titanic, so much
water, moving water.

-And cold water.
-And cold water.

So there was never any way of being able

to truly predict
how the water would behave.

Whereas on Avatar...

the tank was huge.
It was secure.

And actually,
it was incredibly calm.

It's better than being in
a corset for seven months

on a sinking ship.
I promise you that.

[chuckles]

NARRATOR: Now, she put her experience
to good use,

displaying leadership to younger actors
on the set.

JAMES: She's such a powerhouse,
as a star in her own right,

I thought, well, you know, is she gonna
even wanna be directed?

It turns out that, yes and no.

The way Kate does it is,
she listens very carefully

to what I say and then she directs
everyone else in the scene for me.

It does take a female voice,
almost a mother to say,

"Okay, come on, everyone,
all look at me for one second."

"I think what Jim is going to want
is to see you

more in this kind of space,
is that right, Jim?"

BAILEY: When we were filming I was like,
"Oh my gosh, she's from Titanic."

She's an icon." I can't put it into words.

She's Kate Winslet.
You wanna learn from her.

Every time she gives advice,
I take it to heart.

KATE: I remember being a young
actor and wishing at times

I had someone to hold my hand and say,
"It's okay to make mistakes."

NARRATOR: Winslet's character Ronal
and her guidance,

helping the film to address new issues.

Like when Jake and the rest of
the Sullys must leave

their part of Pandora and come into
contact with a different clan of Na'vi.

KATE: That's where Jim is so brilliant,
is that he constructs

these strong female roles
who are resilient.

They're robust.
They live with their heart.

They lead with intention,
and they are true leaders.

NARRATOR: Maori actor Cliff Curtis
plays her husband.

CLIFF: That negotiation between one
tribe and another.

One clan and another.
One family and another.

Trying to figure out
how to find an agreement.

How are we gonna get along?

She is, I think, understandably
suspicious of anyone

who might come in and threaten
this harmony and this peace.

She is a tenacious mother
who will stop at nothing

to protect her family
and her, and her tribe.

NARRATOR: Winslet's warrior Ronal shown
going into battle while pregnant.

JAMES: From having five kids,
I just thought,

everybody's always talking about
female empowerment.

And they never show a pregnant
woman doing anything physical,

like fighting for her life
or for her children's lives.

I don't know a single
pregnant woman who got pregnant,

sat down, and did nothing.

I climbed mountains
through pregnancies.

I mean, my goodness, I think
my water broke when I was actually

like practically on the top
of a mountain.

It's amazing to see that
celebrated on screen.

Cliff Curtis' character puts
his hand on her, on her belly

and says, "You should stay back."
She says, "I ride."

Grabs her atlatl spear and then
walks out and then she goes

and kicks serious ass.

NARRATOR: 25 years after making history,
Winslet and Cameron

looking out for each other.

I told her, you know, we'd contain it
so that it didn't stand

in the way of her, you know,
winning another Emmy or Oscar.

But it's still full on.

Because, you know, no actor of
Kate's stature wants to hear

that it's not full on, you know.
And she of course made it full-on.

NARRATOR: In doing so, she did for younger
actors what Cameron once did for her.

KATE: My whole thing on a set is
setting everyone up to succeed.

We all have the ability
to nurture that person

and to tell them, you can do it.

It was lovely, him kind of
letting me contribute to that.

NARRATOR: No director has done
a better job of conveying

the absolute terror of trying to
survive under water, or failing to,

than James Cameron has.

From Ed Harris and
Mary Elizabeth Mastrontonio

gasping for life in 1989's
The Abyss...

Help! I'm scared!

NARRATOR: To Danny Nucci's Fabrizio
and his final,

fatal plunge in Titanic.

Not to mention Jack Dawson
slipping off that doorframe

into the eternal depths.

But now?

This looks like fun.

When you're underwater,
it's easy to pretend to be

the character and just like,
stay in the scene and be like,

"Okay, now, you know,
I'm in, like, the oceans

you know,
interacting with this creature."

NARRATOR: In Avatar: The Way of Water
Cameron's performance-captured

actors are swimming stress-free
beneath the waves

with full facial expressiveness.

TRINITY: I always looked forward to
days all together there

on the surface before we go down
into the scene.

It was a very kind of
Zen experience and very unifying.

We had to look completely
comfortable, as if this was

just, you know, our element.

We really were on a journey,
which you could call the way of water.

We had to learn the way of water.

So that we could
show it convincingly.

NARRATOR: So, how did they do that?

The answer begins with Cameron
and his love of the sea.

CHRIS: That goes back to your...
I guess your youngest days

watching Jacques Cousteau, right?
What's the genesis of it?

Jacques Cousteau made it
his mission to bring the oceans to us

so we'd take better care of them,
you know, hopefully with some success.

I was landlocked in Canada.

I was hundreds of miles
from the nearest ocean.

I'd never seen the ocean in person,
but I fell in love with it then.

So, I learned how to scuba dive.

My first open water dive was in
the creek in my village,

Chippawa Creek, depth 15 feet.

NARRATOR: Freediving, plunging into the
deep, unsupported by breathing apparatus

was on Cameron's mind
as he pondered,

how could he get his cast
to act underwater?

I really kinda went back to free diving
probably about 20 years ago

and just really, you know,
became an aficionado of it.

And I thought, well, let's just
incorporate that into the film.

James Cameron, he's such
a water person,

and adventurer, an explorer.

And to help him see his vision
come to life is pretty awesome.

NARRATOR: Kirk Krack,
a life-long freediver

and experienced trainer,

is capable of holding
his breath underwater

for up to seven minutes.

A skill he said he could teach

Avatar's cast and crew

under his careful supervision.

And here we go. Two minutes.

I think he's half fish.

You'll notice when you have
a conversation with him

that he breathes differently.

NARRATOR: He's trained Tom Cruise
in Mission Impossible.

And Margot Robbie
in Suicide Squad.

But he hasn't trained you.

So do not do this at home.

How long could you hold your breath
before you began this movie?

I was able to sort of do
a breath hold of a minute.

I wanted to avoid it
in the beginning.

It's nerve-racking,
holding your breath.

ZOE: I'm an island girl.
I felt comfortable in the ocean.

but I never really felt safe.

So, this challenge was unnerving
to say the least.

NARRATOR: Starting in summer 2017

with a trip to Hawaii
and white-board sessions.

We went to school,
basically, you know, for weeks.

All that oxygen in the lungs
now gets squeezed.

NARRATOR: Krack began to teach the ins
and outs of his breath-hold technique.

ZOE: We were in the water,

half of the cast
became certified in scuba diving.

NARRATOR: But the bulk of training
and filming took place later

in the movie's massive water tanks.

This one holds up to 265,000 gallons.

KIRK: Almost all the cast
trained in here.

They prepped via a series
of elite breathing techniques,

and by inhaling
an oxygen-augmented air mix.

It's pushing yourself
to the limit in an environment

that is foreign to all of us,
you know what I mean?

You do go into this
kind of meditative,

almost trance-like state
because you have to relax.

You've got no option
but to clear your mind.

Because you use more oxygen
holding that breath

than you do thinking
about other things.

I can't even

describe what it felt like
to be 30 feet deep in that tank,

and with everything
that I was having to carry

for Neytiri and just waiting for Jim
to say action and just releasing.

NARRATOR: The results were, what else?

Breathtaking for the cast
at any age.

Kirk Krack came to me and said that,

"we wrote down
during your audition

that you were uncomfortable in the water.

And you have excelled more than
we could have imagined."

And that meant a lot.

Once you were done with the training,

how long could you
hold your breath for?

Well, a static breath hold,
where I'm lying with my face in water,

-Six and a half minutes.
-Five minutes and thirty-three seconds.

-Three minutes.
-Twenty-four seconds.

We were competing

in terms of who
was going to hold their breath longer.

Somewhere between
four and five minutes.

If I had to be under there
for four minutes,

I got myself to four minutes.

I think I'm in second or third place,

but definitely not in first.

I think Kate Winslet held hers longer.

Yes, man, look at that!

It's not a competition.

NARRATOR: But because of it,
audiences get to see untethered joy

and pure exhilaration
in The Way of Water.

It took months for us
to get there.

It was wonderful.

It wasn't easy, but my god,
was it rewarding.

It was amazing.

[instrumental music]

WOMAN 1: To your right, please.

TRINITY: I'm feeling really excited.

- This is action.
- Oh, my gosh.

Time for the premiere.

We're here at the world premiere,
so I feel so lucky to be here for Avatar

and part of this Avatar family.

Come with me.

Stars are born!

Why do we make movies?
To share them.

And now tonight, we're finally
getting to share it,

and people can see
what we're talking about.

MAN 1: And bank to your right please!

Jim is so immersed
in the vision of Avatar

and what it is.

It's an extremely clear universe
that he's created.

SIGOURNEY WEAVER: I think it's one
of the most beautiful, most stunning,

delightful, terrifying, you know,
all the things you want

in a Jim Cameron film.

I think it's worth you dressing up

and putting on a nice sweater,
and you know,

holding your partner's hand,
and taking your kid

and buying them popcorn
and sitting together as a family.

I just hope they go to watch it
in theaters,

because they're not going to regret it.

JAMES: We're at the, the most
interesting stage of any film

where you've done your best,
there's nothing more you can do

that you haven't
thought of already.

And it's going to go out there
to the world.

You hand it over.

And I don't know how people
are going to react.

I know the film delivers,
but have tastes changed?

You know, we're in
a post-pandemic world,

we're in a current streaming world.

You know, we're going
to have to see together.

It's an anxious time,
but it's also a time of relief,

because we've done it.