Video:Avatar - Sigourney Weaver Interview, Comic Con
with Rebecca MurraySigourney Weaver reunites with 'Aliens' director James Cameron for 'Avatar,' one of the most anticipated movies of 2009. At the San Diego Comic Con, Weaver talked about the appeal of the story and acting amid new technology.
Transcript:Avatar - Sigourney Weaver Interview, Comic Con
20th Century Fox's Avatar at the 2009 San Diego Comic Con.
Sigourney Weaver - Avatar
So we hear about the technology but we don't always here about the story in this, but I'm sure it was the story that attracted you. What was it about it?
Sigourney Weaver: "Well, the story is really about a young man who finds himself in the process of fighting for someone else. And, really, all of us are caught up in it. I play Grace Augustine who's a scientist on this planet. My whole program is being funded by this nefarious company that's like ruining the planet. So all the good that I'm doing is probably outweighed by the bad that this company's doing. In the end we all have to make choices, and it's very much about the choices that we make. It's about finding the hero in yourself and putting everything on the line. What I loved about the script was not only was I going to experience a lot of this new technology, but very much it was a big canvas story with great characters and a lot of adventure and romance. It's just a helluva movie. It's the most ambitious movie I have ever been associated with, and I can't believe he's pulled it off in such a brilliant way. I saw it the other night and by the end of it I was just weeping, I was so proud of Jim Cameron. He's just achieved this amazing thing."
Do you act different when it comes to a 3-D movie, this new technology, this new look?
Sigourney Weaver: "No, it's exactly the same. And in some ways I think it's even simpler because the performance capture, there's an empty stage, there are a few odd things in the ground that represent a tree or whatever, and you're in a little leotard and you just act. There's no hair and makeup. There's no nothing. It's just you and the material, and you forget. You forget everything but the story you're telling. I thought it would be much harder. You do have to stop and do a t pose every now and then, but it was so interesting."