<p><em>Avatar 2</em> director James Cameron and the movie's cast lived in a Hawaiian rainforest "for a few days" while making the motion picture.</p>.<p>Cameron said: "I took the actors on what I called a sense-memory odyssey. We went to Kauai. We lived in the rainforest for a few days. We cooked in underground fire pits. We drank water from the leaves."</p>.<p>The filmmaker encouraged the cast to remember how they walked up steep sections of the rainforest and what the area smelt like, reports femalefirst.co.uk.</p>.<p>Speaking to Variety, he added: "I said, 'All right, we're going to walk up a trail and I want you to observe as much as you can about how you place your feet, how you place your hands when you go up a steep section. You're going to have to remember it, what it felt like, what it smelled like, and you're going to have to bring it back into a relatively sterile environment.'</p>.<p>"We all just embarked on that journey."</p>.<p>Cameron recently shared <em>Avatar 2</em> - the follow-up to his 2009 blockbuster - needs to "make a lot of money".</p>.<p>He said: "The big issue is: Are we going to make any damn money? Big, expensive films have got to make a lot of money.</p>.<p>"We're in a new world post-Covid, post-streaming. Maybe those numbers will never be seen again. Who knows? It's all a big roll of the dice."</p>.<p>Cameron noted how the upcoming movie, which stars the likes of Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winslet, and Edie Falco among others - will allow him to bring together his "two greatest loves", directing and "ocean exploration".</p>.<p>He added: "It sounds kind of nuts, the process I mean, if 'Avatar' hadn't made so much damn money, we'd never do this - because it's kind of crazy... I do the ocean thing when I'm not making movies. So if I could combine my two greatest loves - one of which is ocean exploration; the other, feature filmmaking - why wouldn't I?"</p>
<p><em>Avatar 2</em> director James Cameron and the movie's cast lived in a Hawaiian rainforest "for a few days" while making the motion picture.</p>.<p>Cameron said: "I took the actors on what I called a sense-memory odyssey. We went to Kauai. We lived in the rainforest for a few days. We cooked in underground fire pits. We drank water from the leaves."</p>.<p>The filmmaker encouraged the cast to remember how they walked up steep sections of the rainforest and what the area smelt like, reports femalefirst.co.uk.</p>.<p>Speaking to Variety, he added: "I said, 'All right, we're going to walk up a trail and I want you to observe as much as you can about how you place your feet, how you place your hands when you go up a steep section. You're going to have to remember it, what it felt like, what it smelled like, and you're going to have to bring it back into a relatively sterile environment.'</p>.<p>"We all just embarked on that journey."</p>.<p>Cameron recently shared <em>Avatar 2</em> - the follow-up to his 2009 blockbuster - needs to "make a lot of money".</p>.<p>He said: "The big issue is: Are we going to make any damn money? Big, expensive films have got to make a lot of money.</p>.<p>"We're in a new world post-Covid, post-streaming. Maybe those numbers will never be seen again. Who knows? It's all a big roll of the dice."</p>.<p>Cameron noted how the upcoming movie, which stars the likes of Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winslet, and Edie Falco among others - will allow him to bring together his "two greatest loves", directing and "ocean exploration".</p>.<p>He added: "It sounds kind of nuts, the process I mean, if 'Avatar' hadn't made so much damn money, we'd never do this - because it's kind of crazy... I do the ocean thing when I'm not making movies. So if I could combine my two greatest loves - one of which is ocean exploration; the other, feature filmmaking - why wouldn't I?"</p>