Thirteen: the number of days it took Avatar 2 to reach $1 billion in revenue. It was the big question mark of this end of the year 2022. Thirteen years after the release of the first part, impossible to know if the spectators were going to be there. James Cameron has succeeded. Only partly, since he had confided that Avatar 2 was so expensive that it should become the third or fourth most profitable film in history, and this is not yet the case. In France, there are three days at Avatar 2: The Way of the Water to reach 6.5 million admissions and pass Top Gun: Maverick. The second installment in James Cameron’s saga would thus become, in France, the most viewed film of 2022. Currently, it has accumulated more than 5 million admissions. Kate Winslet can at least boast of having beaten Tom Cruise. We already told you about it in 2020, a little reminder: Also to be seen on KonbiniAvatar 2 has many underwater scenes, and to shoot these, the actors had to undergo intense physical training. In the film, Kate Winslet plays Ronal, a member of a clan who lives in complete harmony with water and can stay submerged for extended periods without having to come to the surface. It was by following intense apnea training that Kate Winslet ended up breaking her record, and that of Tom Cruise by the way. In an interview with Total Film magazine, she confided: “I have the video of me resurfacing saying, ‘Am I dead, am I dead?’ I immediately wanted to know my time. And I couldn’t believe it…” By staying 7 minutes and 14 seconds underwater, she shattered her old record and that of Tom Cruise who had held his breath for 6 minutes for a scene from Mission impossible 5. When she heard the news, the actress replied, “Poor Tom.”
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