james cameron is a raging asshole, but i wish y’all would do research.
the actors were all given wetsuits, but Kate Winslet refused to wear hers because she had decided she wanted to method act.
she didn’t get pneumonia because you can’t get pneumonia from cold water. that’s an old wive’s tale. you get pneumonia from bacteria or a virus. Winslet, however, says she got hypothermia, from filming in cold water, though Cameron claims the water was heated to 80F (whether he can be believed is another question).
in any event, her bruises were filming scenes where she was being thrown about by the sinking boat.
things were actually… a lot worse for Kate Winslet (and the rest of the cast) than this, so i find it weird people are making things up.
everyone on set was sleep deprived due to demanding filming hours, which of which were mostly at night. And, as i already mentioned, actors got thrown around and bruised during the sinking ship scenes.
Winslet chilped a tooth, and also almost drowned twice: first, because her coat got stuck on something while she was running from a flood of water; second, because she was not adequately trained to use a breathing device for underwater shots. she has also mentioned that she was never asked if she could swim when signing on, which she found dangerous, since many scenes required strong swimming skills.
what happened to Ed Harris while filmig The Abyss is absolutely true, though. he almost died and Cameron just kept filming. the whole cast was subjected to long, dangerous hours of shooting and put under extreme physical and emotional durress.
there were a number of scenes that were incredibly dangerous to film and the actors were not given stunt doubles. Cameron also forced the actors to film demanding scenes over and over again, causing many of them to have breakdowns. Harris was so traumatized by the shoot that he refused to even talk about the movie for years.
James Cameron is what happens when powerful men are endlessly applauded as geniuses and never forced to face consequences as a result. he has a history of being convinced that he can do whatever he wants for the sake of his art, disregarding basic human decency and safety.
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