Kate Winslet broke Hollywood records while filming “Avatar: The Way of Water” — and thought she died while doing it.
The 47-year-old actress deprived herself of air for all of seven minutes and 15 seconds, beating actor Tom Cruise’s best time of six minutes while on the set of ” Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation” in 2011.
“I have the video of me surfacing saying, ‘Am I dead, have I died?’ And then going, ‘What was [my time]?’” the actress told Total Film magazineWinslet noted how quickly she got over the shock of her near-death experience. “Straight away I wanted to know my time. And I couldn’t believe it…The next thing I say is, ‘We need to radio set.’ I wanted Jim to know right away,” she shared.Kate Winslet thought she was “dead” while holding her breath underwater during production for “Avatar.”20th Century Studios via APto hold my breath for over seven minutes,” Winslet assured. “It’s just that the opportunity to set a record presented itself. I wanted to break my own record, which was already six minutes and 14 seconds.
Cameron had wanted to limit the “dry for wet” ocean scenes and make the water sequences feel real and authentic — which meant having the actors act underwater. “I said, ‘It’s not going to work. It’s not going to look real,’” the 68-year-old filmmaker explained. “I even let them run a test, where we captured dry for wet, and then we captured in water, a crude level of our in-water capture. And it wasn’t even close.”
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