James Cameron Breaks Down That Horny ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Tent Scene

Logo text It’s the Avatar: Fire and Ash scene critics and fans keep talking about: A sensual, druggy, S&M-tinged meeting between the film’s two big villains: Col. Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) and Ash People witch-queen Varang (Oona Chaplin). The sequence is not only eyebrow-raising by the family-friendly Avatar franchise standards, but also arguably the film’s most interesting and unpredictable exchange — and might even be director James Cameron‘s favorite. In the scene, Quaritch meets with Varang in her tent to try and convince the volatile Ash People leader to enter into an alliance. But Varang turns the tables on Quaritch, making him consume a hallucinogen and seductively cutting his chest with a knife. Cameron broke down the scene’s appeal during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter: “You have no idea what’s going to happen next, and they’re both fascinating characters and she’s mesmerizing in that scene. ‘Mesmerizing’ is the word that always comes to mind for me.” Continued Cameron: “I didn’t quite realize exactly what I’d written for that scene until I [saw the actors perform it]. Then I realized it’s a double seduction. He’s there to get her to do what he wants her to do, then it seems
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