Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Avatar’s Zoe Saldana Defends Motion Capture Performance as the ‘Most Empowering Form of Acting’

Zoe Saldana passionately defended her acting in Avatar...and Sisanie will explain why...

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Direct from Hollywood.

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As the world prepares for the release of the third
Avatar this holiday season, Fire and Ash director James Cameron
is apparently considering another project related to the franchise, behind
the scenes documentary and Avatar star Zoe Saldana is all
for it, she tells Beyond Noise she considers it not
only the most empowering form of acting, but is also

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incredibly complex and takes a huge commitment, saying it takes
seven years to make an Avatar film.

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We physically train with gymnast, circus performers and acrobats to
learn how to walk like an extraterrestrial human species. That's
all us an incredible stunt actors. With the technology that
James Cameron creates, he gives the artist the power of
complete ownership, the words of Zoe Saldana, who's also called
out the Academy Awards for never nominating a single actor

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to date for a motion capture performance. Avatar Fire and
Ash hits theaters December nineteenth. That's direct from Hollywood.