So, what happened when Kate Winslet filmed her Avatar 2 underwater scenes? The actor explained to The Guardian on Feb. 21, 2021 that learning to free-dive was rewarding, but a bit disorienting. "God, it's just wonderful. Your mind completely drifts off," she told the outlet. "You can't think about anything, you can't make lists in your head, you're just looking at the bubbles underneath you... My first words [when I reemerged] were, 'Am I dead?' Yes, I thought I'd died."
Wow. Well, Winslet was fine, thankfully, but she did break a record for filming underwater in the process. Filming Avatar 2, Winslet spent 7 minutes and 14 seconds underwater, a record previously held by Tom Cruise for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, per ET Online. You go, Winslet! Just maybe don't try and break it again.
"It's so funny because I don't really read reviews or media things. I'm not on Instagram," she told ET in November 2020. "So... I've had people coming up to me at work saying, 'Oh my God, like seven minutes and 14 seconds? Like, what?!' And I'm going, 'What? Hang on, wait a minute. How do you know that?' It was brilliant and I was very proud of myself and I'll probably never be able to do it again." Winslet added, "[It was] four weeks worth of quite intense training... in the dive tank... but I loved it."
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