So, performance capture is actually allowing an actor to play a character they could not otherwise play. You can’t take Sigourney Weaver and make her two-thirds of her height.
Look at Sigourney Weaver, playing 14-year-old past self - that’s an amazing performance. They made every creative choice you see up on the screen, every blink, every quiver in a lip. These characters are not animated characters. It has to change, otherwise recognize performances that are in prosthetics. Performance-capture roles are never recognized in the awards race. When they see their wry smile or the tears slowly come out of their eyes … It’s what they did. You just don’t have to sit through three hours of makeup a day to transform.
This is us realizing their performances on the screen - all of the subtlety, all the nuance, all of the empathy that they create. And we say to our actors that this is not other people interpreting your performance. We choose to do it through a computer-generated character. Other movies might use prosthetics to transform an actor into the character that they need to play. What is that commitment that you made to the actors? Oscars: Morocco Picks Asmae El Moudir's 'The Mother Of All Lies' for International Feature Category They each saw their own performances up on the screen, and that’s the commitment we made to them. There was no greater joy than I could have as a producer than seeing our cast respond the way they did during the film and after the film. It was the first time we were really sharing the movie in its finished form with anybody, and as they watched the screen, I watched them reacting to the movie. My favorite screening experience was in early December when I flew from New Zealand to New York, and I screened the movie for Zoe, Sam, Sigourney and Stephen Lang. Landau talks to THR about besting his own box office records, what it will take for performance-capture roles to be acknowledged by awards voters and if the still-untitled third Avatar film will stick to its current release date of December 2024.ĭo you have a favorite screening experience of The Way of Water ? Twenty-five years after winning the best picture Oscar for Titanic - and 12 years after his second best picture nomination, for Avatar - producer Jon Landau is back in the awards race with Avatar: The Way of Water.
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