Actor Zoe Saldaña knew starring in James Cameron’s Avatar franchise was going to be a commitment. But it was a commitment she didn’t have to think twice about after being offered the role. Zoe Saldaña was excited about being a part of James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ franchise Saldaña didn’t just sign up for one Avatar film.
Cameron always planned for the first movie to spawn several sequels. But there would be a long gap between the original Avatar and its successor Way of the Water . One of the reasons why the sequel took so long to reach theaters was because Cameron needed to develop the right technology.
“Jim was finally able to crack that challenge — that whole thing that you can’t imitate water, virtually, through performance capture,” Saldaña once told Variety . “That was just a challenge that he had taken upon himself, and it took him years, and he did it. He did it.
It’s powerful, it’s compelling.” Because of how expansive the Avatar franchise was, Cameron’s own actors would’ve had to wait years between the movies as well. But Saldaña didn’t mind being locked down to the sci-fi franchise, and instead looked forward to it.
“We signed our lives away for whatever was going to happen,” she once told Access (via Female First ). “It was the kind of thing that, had they not asked me to sign, I would have offered myself regardless. Any excuse to go back and reunite with Jim and the rest of the cast, especially Sam [Worthington] and S.
