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

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood.
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  Speaker 2: As the world prepares for the release of the third
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  Speaker 2: Avatar this holiday season, Fire and Ash director James Cameron
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  Speaker 2: is apparently considering another project related to the franchise, behind
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  Speaker 2: the scenes documentary and Avatar star Zoe Saldana is all
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  Speaker 2: for it, she tells Beyond Noise she considers it not
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  Speaker 2: only the most empowering form of acting, but is also
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  Speaker 2: incredibly complex and takes a huge commitment, saying it takes
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  Speaker 2: seven years to make an Avatar film.
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  Speaker 1: We physically train with gymnast, circus performers and acrobats to
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  Speaker 1: learn how to walk like an extraterrestrial human species. That's
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  Speaker 1: all us an incredible stunt actors. With the technology that
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  Speaker 1: James Cameron creates, he gives the artist the power of
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  Speaker 1: complete ownership, the words of Zoe Saldana, who's also called
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  Speaker 1: out the Academy Awards for never nominating a single actor
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  Speaker 1: to date for a motion capture performance. Avatar Fire and
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  Speaker 1: Ash hits theaters December nineteenth. That's direct from Hollywood.