Overview
- Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films is now streaming on Disney+.
- James Cameron brought in world champion freediver William Trubridge as a stroke consultant to design a custom 'keyhole' freediving stroke for the Na'vi.
- Trubridge describes the stroke as using hands and feet like paddles with broad sweeping motions through the water.
- Because actors could not generate enough thrust during the glide phase, the team equipped them with small jet-propulsion units that performers triggered with a switch.
- Cameron says the cast became very proficient with the system, and GamesRadar+ reports the next film, Fire and Ash, is slated for a December 19 theatrical release.