With Avatar: The Way Of Water, Kate Winslet breaks Tom Cruise’s record for most lethal stunts performed. According to recent reports, Kate shattered Tom Cruise’s record during filming for Avatar 2. Breaking Tom Cruise’s record from Mission: Impossible, Kate Winslet was able to hold her breath underwater for a scene in Avatar: The Way of Water for seven minutes and twelve seconds.
Speaking about the same in an interview with the media, the actress stated, “It was brilliant and I was very proud of myself and I’ll probably never be able to do it again.” She added, “That came at the end of four weeks worth of quite intense training and it was in the dive tank, it was in the training tank. But I loved it.”
According to a story in FandomWire, Kate Winslet shared more about her background and said, “Once you get down there, everyone has to do a certain sequence of signals to let everyone else know that they’re okay. There’s a lot of technical stuff that you have to go through before you can just perform and it is quite strange. Obviously, everything happens much slower in the water, your body doesn’t always move as quickly as you might like it too. Especially if you’re doing a battle sequence.”
Winslet was so pleased with her swimming abilities that she snuck her husband onto the site during filming to record the scene. Speaking at a worldwide press conference before the movie’s premiere, she remarked, “I actually have a video of when I surface from that breath-hold. And the only reason I have it is because my husband snuck in. I said, ‘Please don’t come because I just don’t want you videoing. I’ll just feel pressure, just please don’t do that’ and he snuck in.”
She continued, “I have the video of me surfacing saying, ‘Am I dead? Have I died?’ And then going ‘what was it?’ – straightaway I wanted to know my time. I couldn’t believe that it was 7.15 but having been told it’s 7.15 – you want to know what the next thing I say is? We need to radio set.“I wanted James to know right way, that’s the first thing I wanted to do – it definitely wasn’t a competition.”