Zoe Saldaña Wants James Cameron to Make an ‘Avatar’ Doc That Celebrates Motion Capture Acting

Zoe Saldaña wants audiences to truly understand the skill and talent that go into motion capture performances, like in James Cameron’s Avatar movies.

The Oscar-winning actress shared during a recent interview with Alicia Keys for Beyond Noise that the filmmaker “is considering a documentary about the making of Avatar — finally giving us a chance to explain, in a meticulous way, why performance capture is the most empowering form of acting.”

The actress, who plays Neytiri in the 2009 pic and 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water, expressed the importance of giving context to the type of work as “it gives us the credit, the ability to own 100 percent of our performance on screen.”

“With animation, you might go into the studio for [a few] sessions; that’s as much as they’ll need you for the whole movie. You go into a studio, however you’re dressed, and you lend your voice,…