{"id":2099024,"date":"2025-10-18T00:43:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2099024"},"modified":"2025-10-18T00:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:43:18","slug":"how-filming-1989s-the-abyss-nearly-killed-the-star-studded-cast-and-director-james-cameron-globe-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-filming-1989s-the-abyss-nearly-killed-the-star-studded-cast-and-director-james-cameron-globe-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"How Filming 1989\u2019s \u2018The Abyss\u2019 Nearly Killed the Star-Studded Cast and Director James Cameron \u2013 Globe Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1290px;\"><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">20th Century Fox<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Making the 1989 sci-fi film <em>The Abyss<\/em> involved so many hazards that it nearly killed its cast \u2014 including <strong>Ed Harris<\/strong>, <strong>Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio<\/strong> and <strong>Michael Biegn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Near-drownings, electrocutions and suffocations \u2014 not to mention mental breakdowns \u2014 had them privately calling it The Abuse. Even director <strong>James Cameron<\/strong> nearly went to a watery grave when his oxygen supply went bust.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2570px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13578\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.globemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Flashback-The-Abyss-2-1.jpg_master-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Flashback-The-Abyss-2-1.jpg_master-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/globemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Flashback-The-Abyss-2-1.jpg_master-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Flashback-The-Abyss-2-1.jpg_master-1-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/globemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Flashback-The-Abyss-2-1.jpg_master-1-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Flashback-The-Abyss-2-1.jpg_master-1-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/globemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Flashback-The-Abyss-2-1.jpg_master-1-2048x1371.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"\/><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">20th Century Fox<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cast and crew learned underwater diving for the movie, about a stranded search-and-recovery team that runs into deep-sea aliens, because 40 percent of principal photography took place inside two massive, specially constructed water tanks.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, a fed-up Mastrantonio stormed out, yelling: \u201cWe are not animals!\u201d And Cameron later admitted: \u201cI don\u2019t ever want to go through this again,\u201d according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fandomwire.com\/we-are-not-animals-james-camerons-cruelty-led-to-an-on-set-mutiny-after-it-caused-his-2-leads-to-have-a-nervous-breakdown-while-filming-90m-movie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>FandomWire<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source globemagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20th Century Fox Making the 1989 sci-fi film The Abyss involved so many hazards that it nearly killed its cast \u2014 including Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Michael Biegn. Near-drownings, electrocutions and suffocations \u2014 not to mention mental breakdowns \u2014 had them privately calling it The Abuse. 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