When Sigourney weaver saw a screening of the finished feature, she said she and cast mate Stephen Lang "were nervous as two kittens."
She then said: "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."
Sigourney plays botanist Grace Augustine, who becomes a mentor and mother figure to a paraplegic soldier named Jake, played by hot property Sam Worthington. Shes studying the jungle moon Pandora, home of 10ft tall blue species called Na'vi.
Weaver: "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 rain forest. To see their relationship flower in that world, that’s why you want to go there. It’s not because the colors are pretty."
"Shooting on the floor with Jim had a kind of guerrilla feeling. He was operating on every shot—he'd invented these cameras and by god he was going to use them. He was unstoppable; it was fantastic. I think the filmmaker [in him] had been pent up for so long over those 12 years [since Titanic] that once he started shooting . . . you know, he’s probably still shooting a few things that we don’t know about."
She then added, "I didn't have to be a superwoman in a tiny outfit doing bizarre things," talking to More magazine. "My impression is that [today's young actresses] want to be more glamorous, like, 'Why can't I be smart and powerful and sexy?' Well, to me what was sexy about Ripley was that she was who she was."
Full interview is in the December/January issue of More magazine, and also there is a web exclusive conversation with Sigourney Weaver and James Cameron too on More's own website, click the link below. Many thanks for More magazine for the interview.
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