Director James Cameron’s latest film, Avatar, topped the box office for the fourth time this past weekend and it has already become the second-most successful film ever worldwide. Part of the reason people go out to see the movie, which takes place on a fictional moon called Pandora, is because the audience gets immersed in the Pandora’s environment. Zoe Saldana plays “Neytiri” (Pron: NEIGH-tier-e), one of Pandora’s inhabitants, a member of a species known as the Navi. She explained her goal when making the flick.
Zoe’s comments after the jump:
Zoe “I really wanted to, along with Jim and all the creative artists that he had conceiving the Navi and everything, I really wanted the Navi to come to life so that the audience can have that adventure of sitting back and going, ‘Oh my god, they are real!’”
So how did Zoe feel a few years back when she was asked to be in the movie?
Zoe “You know, there’s a lot of excitement and anxiety too. You also have those moments where you kind of have an out of body experience because it is James Cameron calling you on your cell phone and asking you if you can be in his movie. Those are just things that you have on your bucket list of things that you think will never realize or manifest themselves.”
Avatar is still in theaters. If you head out to see it, you might help it to become the biggest movie of all time. It would take the title from another James Cameron film, Titanic.
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