The Avatar 2 set comes to Hungary

According to borsonline.hu, Budapest will be home to the set of yet another Hollywood blockbuster. The Avatar 2 cast will visit Budapest this summer to shoot certain scenes of the movie in the Hungarian capital.

A new addition to the cast is Kate Winslet, who has worked with James Cameron in the past on the Titanic movie. The Hungarian stunt double specialist, Gábor Piroch, will also work on the movie. He was in Charge of directing the action scenes of the Inferno movie, too, starring Tom Hanks. This time, he only had this to say to the readers:

I’m working on two projects in Hollywood at the moment. One of them is preparing for the Avatar 2 cast to come to Budapest to shoot.

He remained silent about the other project.

James Cameron, in an interview with Vanity Fair, revealed some details about the sequel. Avatar 2 will take place underwater, at least partially. About Winslet’s role, he had this to say:

She plays a character who’s part of the Sea People, the reef people. The one thing she did do is demand that she do all her own water work.

In order to do this, Winslet had to learn to free dive. Other cast members also had to overcome challenges like holding their breath for 3-4 minutes while acting out a scene involving some sort of sign language.