Actors are often tasked to portray several scenarios for their projects.
Sometimes it can include doing intimate moments on-screen.
While it may seem romantic on the outside, filming such scenes can be quite challenging for the actors.
Kissing scenes require a delicate relationship between the actor’s professionalism and chemistry on-screen.
One actor that has done several kissing scenes through the years is Zoe Saldana.
James Cameron’s sci-fi epic “Avatar” became a revolutionary film in the industry.
This would require every cast member to film in an empty green screen studio while wearing some specialized suits.
Their performances would later be digitally transformed to create out-of-this-world imagery.
Cameron got frustrated at the pair’s inability to film their kissing scene seamlessly.
She continued, “Jim would yell, ‘Cut.
The actors are stuck again.
Can’t you guys be more careful?’
We were like, ‘Damn it.
It’s not that easy.'”
Sometimes we’d just start laughing.
The entire time we were all blushing.
It was just like, ‘Okay, this is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever done.'"
That’s what we were doing with all the preparation that James allowed us to have."
For the “Avatar: The Way of Water,” Saldana said they had to perform scenes underwater.
You’re training yourself to let go of that panic when you go underwater.
And once you put that into practice, it’s kind of liberating."
