Jack Champion Talks Working With James Cameron & Sigourney Weaver in 'Avatar: Fire and Ash'

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At the 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' premiere in Los Angeles, Jack Champion chats with THR and shares what it was like working closely with Sigourney Weaver and receiving notes from director James Cameron. Plus, he talks about visiting Pandora this time around on a "greater scope."

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00:00This is a huge movie for you. Spider really goes through a major evolution.

00:05What are you most excited for fans of the Avatar franchise to see in this movie?

00:09I mean, I'm just excited to be interviewed by Hollywood Reporter, first of all.

00:12Love you guys, but um...

00:14Sorry, what was the question?

00:16What are you excited for fans of the franchise to see in this movie?

00:19I mean, honestly, just to be invited back to Pandora and to see it on a greater scope,

00:25be introduced to more cultures and people.

00:28The Wind Traders, which are essentially a new culture of Na'vi,

00:32they're kind of like Na'vi pirates, meat traders, sailors, like they're very cool.

00:36The Ash people, kind of bad news, very aggressive.

00:40They think Awa betrayed them.

00:42So you kind of just get to see a greater scope of Pandora.

00:45And I think you honestly understand it on a deeper level after watching this film.

00:49Since you filmed this so long ago, what was it like watching it for the first time?

00:53Were there some things you'd forgotten about?

00:55Oh, yeah.

00:56I mean, honestly, to see it, there's like so many little things as I was there to film it.

01:02I remember there's a scene where I'm running from the Ash people.

01:04I'm like, yeah, can you keep up?

01:05Is that all you got?

01:06And I turn around and I get just a face full of Branch.

01:09And I just remember having a memory of doing that take and Jim laughing hysterically

01:14because I'm like talking all this shit and then I just eat it.

01:17And he used it in the movie.

01:19So then I saw it and I'm like, oh my God.

01:21So all these memories just come flooding back and it was it was just such a treat.

01:24It really was.

01:25Yeah.

01:26Having worked with James Cameron on these past two movies, what's the best note he's ever given you?

01:30Whoa.

01:32Oh, man.

01:33The best note, honestly, is probably he's it's kind of funny.

01:39He's so specific.

01:40He's like, Jack, can you turn your head left just about 30 degrees or 30 percent?

01:44And I don't know how, but I just I know how to do it.

01:48So after a while, just know, OK, 30 degrees to the left, 40 degrees to the right.

01:52And I don't know how, but he got like kind of just you learn it, you know, through working with them.

01:58In this movie, you have a lot of scenes with Sigourney Weaver.

02:01What was it like working with her so closely?

02:03I mean, Sigourney Weaver, I'm friends with her family.

02:06I mean, she's an amazing like mentor, an amazing and beautiful human being.

02:11I mean, she was just so welcoming, so nice.

02:14And I love I love Sig.

02:15She's really she's amazing.

02:17And she was always there for me, any of the cast, any of the young cast.

02:20Like she was so like she was just so nice.

02:24Yeah.

02:25And lately, James Cameron has been saying in interviews that depending on how this movie does,

02:29it could be the final Avatar film.

02:31Have you filmed anything for movie four?

02:33Yeah, we filmed actually a lot of prequel scenes.

02:37And I just hope that audiences get to see him because they are crazy, crazy, like genuinely.

02:44So I really hope that that we get to make them, hopefully.

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