Sigourney Weaver talks the experience of Avatar

Sigourney Weaver talks about the mind-blowing experience of Avatar, James Cameron’s epic coming to IMAX and conventional theaters December 18, 2009. Coventry Telegraph writes:

When Sigourney saw a screening of the finished film, she says she and castmate Stephen Lang “were nervous as two kittens.”

She added: “About a third of the way in he turned to me and said, ‘People are going to piss themselves when they see this movie.’ I thought to myself, they’re going to piss themselves again and again and again. Because it’s just one amazing scene after the other.”

Weaver plays botanist Grace Augustine, who’s studying the beautiful jungle moon Pandora, home to a species of 10ft tall blue humanoid creatures called Na’vi.

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Weaver added: “It was the most ambitious script by far that I’d ever read. And it was really about something very important, which is finding the hero within yourself and finding something worth fighting for.

“My avatar body can do anything. It was so cool. I remember reading the script and going, “How is Jim ever going to do this?” It didn’t seem physically possible. All this technology doesn’t really worry me. It’s just going to give us more fun stuff to do. You’re never going to be able to replace the actor, because we’re the people who make the special effects work.

“Without Sam and Zoe [Saldana], they play the main love story – if they weren’t so good you wouldn’t care about being in that rainforest. To see their relationship flower in that world, that’s why you want to go there. It’s not because the colors are pretty.”

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