The Oscar-winning actress managed to hold her breath for seven minutes while portraying her character in theAvatarsequel.
Tom Cruise broke the record initially when filming a scene for the fifth instalment of hisMission Impossiblefranchise.
Cruise held his breath for six minutes under water for a sequence inMission Impossible: Rogue Nation.
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Winslet mentioned toThe Hollywood Reporterthat she also learnt how to free-dive for the film.
This is not the first time that Winslet and Cameron have teamed up for a blockbuster.
The pair worked together on 1997’s epicTitanic.
Kate Winslet and writer-director of both Titanic and the Avatar franchise, James Cameron. Source: Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images
The production is based in New Zealand and filming had previously been shut down due to Covid-19 regulations.
Schwarzenegger himself first worked with Cameron onThe Terminatorin 1984.
New Zealand’s response to the coronavirus has been widely praised as one of the best in the world.
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The third film’s live-action portions were filmed simultaneously with those of the second.
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