Kate Winslet’s Avatar Sequel Character is Part of the ‘Sea People’

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Her character name is Ronal. From JC:

“The one thing she did do is demand that she do all her own water work. I said, ‘All right, that’s fine, we’ll have to teach you how to free dive.’ The other actors are up to three- and four-minute breath holds. We’ve already been doing underwater capture. We did a scene last week with six teenagers, well, actually five teenagers and one 7-year-old underwater holding their breath for a couple minutes and acting, actually doing a dialogue scene under water because they speak kind of a sign language.”

Interestingly she asked to do all the underwater scenes herself with no doubles. One would think she'd be gun shy about filming underwater with JC at the helm after the reported stress/bad feelings the Titanic shoot brought her, but nope.

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