James Cameron spent years working on ‘Avatar: The Way of Water‘. The film opened to mostly positive critical feedback and has been doing well at the box office. It also consists of several teen actors with pivotal roles in the film’s story set in the world of Pandora.
Recently, the filmmaker said that he did not want the kids of his film to age like the teen actors of the popular Netflix series ‘Stranger Things.’ He said in the latter, the highschool going kids look like they are 27. Let’s find out in detail about Cameron’s comments.
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James Cameron Takes A Dig At ‘Stranger Things’
Jim Cameron has spent years of his life building the world of Pandora. In ‘Avatar: The Way of Water‘, he also had to deal with teen actors as the story focuses on a family.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the visionary filmmaker said the reason why he simultaneously shot most of the sequels was that he didn’t want his teen actors to age poorly. One of the cast members, Champion, was “growing like a weed” when cast in the film. “Otherwise, you get — and I love ‘Stranger Things’ — but you get the ‘Stranger Things’ effect where they’re supposed to still be in high school [but] they look like they’re 27,” Cameron said.
He further said, “You know, I love the show. It’s okay, we’ll suspend disbelief. We like the characters, but, you know.” The director shot two sequels at once and waited for filming until all the scripts were finalized.
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Cameron Modeled His Films On ‘Lord Of The Rings’
Shooting two-three films simultaneously were something Cameron took inspiration from Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lord of the Rings‘. He said that they took the chance to launch all three of them at once.
“But he had the books mapped out, so he could always show the actors what they needed to know about their character arc“, Cameron stated. He said that he had to approach the films “as if the books already existed.”
Cameron achieved this by writing all the scripts and letting the actors read them and figure out the character arcs themselves.
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