Kate Winslet reunited again with James Cameron for the sequel of the worldwide hit Avatar: The Way of Water. The actor and filmmaker duo worked together in the Academy Award winner Titanic (1997) which rose Kate to worldwide stardom. The actor recently revealed that she had beaten Tom Cruise over staying underwater for about 7 minutes and 15 seconds and holding her breath during a training session.
Kate will be part of the film in a reprised role named Ronal with actors Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang and Sigourney Weaver for the Avatar sequel. Since the maximum filming was done in the sea, the crew had to undergo a training to perfect the scenes. This is when Kate mastered the art of staying underwater for long.
In a special guest appearance on The Graham Norton Show on Friday, Kate shared a clip in which she has held her breath for 7 minutes and 15 seconds and thereafter, post doing some relaxations and breathing exercises, she asks, “Am I dead?”
Host Graham asked the process of staying underwater for so long to which she replied, “Firstly, it is a sport. It’s not something you can try in the bath, it’s not something you can never ever do it by yourself. Actually what happens when people don’t know what they are doing, they come up and gasp, and that’s when people black out and run into trouble.”
“The training I had was three weeks of training, every single day and you learn how to literally distribute the oxygen in your body. It’s a very detailed, extraordinary process. I loved it and got really good at it,” Kate said. Graham jokingly said, “You know who’s running a bath right now? Tom Cruise!”
Tom made the record for six minutes, while Kate now surpassed him. “You don’t think you can be brave enough to learn something new when you’ve left education behind. As a woman, I felt so great about it,” she added.
