In the fall of 2020, the world media circled the news that actress Kate Winslet on the shooting of the film "Avatar-2" held her breath under water without special means for incredible 7 minutes. 14 sec. We checked whether it really was.

How They wrote Journalists, a 45-year-old actress, broke the record of her colleague Tom Cruz, whose hero in the 2015 militant “The Mission is impossible: the tribe of the outcasts” for 6 minutes of stay under water tried to pull out a computer chip, simultaneously dodging the rotating screw. Note that Cruz at the time of filming was 52 years old.

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To begin with, let's pay attention to the global records of breath holding under water. The main discipline in Fridging is a static apnea, in which a person is under water without breathing and without moving. But it is also divided into two categories. In the classic version among men in 2014 a record Installed Serb Branko Petrovich, who stayed under water 11 minutes. 54 sec. In women, a similar record is 9 minutes. 2 sec. And belongs to the famous Russian freediver Natalia Molchanova. By the way, this sport can hardly be called safe: in 2015, Molchanova died during an immersion.

As for Kate Winslet, about this episode of prolonged filming of the sequel told Back in February 2019, one of the producers of the painting by John Landau: “We built a reservoir that contained 500,000 gallons of water (2.3 million liters. <...> We taught the actors to hold their breath, because in the scenes they should swim just like that, without an aqualanga. And they should be prepared for long take.

Training with Kate Winslet passed, and she managed to hold her breath for as long as 7 minutes. <...> You see how Kate goes under the water, and she was so comfortable. One day I went to the tank in which she trained. There were several windows. And I see: she just walks along the bottom of the tank left and right, left and right, and then saw me in the window and waved her hand. I could not believe it! "

August 26, 2020 on The Hollywood Reporter resource interview Winslet. In it, the actress, talking about the filming of the upcoming blockbuster, said: “For the shooting in Avatar, I had to learn a Fridiving, and it was incredible. My longest breath holding was 7 minutes. 14 sec. Crazy thing. "

Two months passed, and Winslet learned about the achievement of the whole world after a quote Shared The official account of the Avatar franchise on Twitter.

It should be noted that Kate Winslet is not the only actress who, on the set of Avatar-2, had to engage in fridding. In October about similar experience told And her colleague in the film Sigurni Weaver. He managed to hold out a little less under water - more than 6 minutes, and she admitted that she breathed oxygen before diving. Most likely, the same procedure was pre -Winslet (although there are no direct references to this), because the British record among women in static apnea without oxygen It is 6 min. 58 sec. With or without oxygen, but the news of the long -term immersion of the actress was true.