Being a director is certainly not an easy job, especially when you’re James Cameron. The director has created some of the best Hollywood movies, so naturally, he has the power to skip some major events. The director refused to show up at the 95th Academy Awards earlier this year and his way of choosing to video conference instead of a face-to-face interview has attracted a lot of attention on social media.
The director is indeed very busy as he is currently working on the third installment of the Avatar franchise. His last two Avatar films have been very successful so the standards are set very high, so Cameron is working hard to give the fans his best.
Is James Cameron too busy to physically attend interviews?
Recently, director James Cameron virtually attended Variety’s Directors-on-Directors with fellow director Greta Gerwig. Fans quickly noticed that Cameron was attending the interview from his sea-themed. “man cave.” The two successful directors talked about their processes of writing and developing their movies, but it seems like the attention was on Cameron.
Say what you will about James Cameron, but the fact that he refuses to physically show up to anything now, instead choosing to video conference from his personal underwater base camp, is operating at levels never previously seen pic.twitter.com/CK1mNbid3w
— John Frankensteiner (@JFrankensteiner) December 15, 2023
When you have 3 of the top 5 grossing films of all time you get to do that.
— Notyep Elad (@NotyepElad) December 15, 2023
he’s like a bond villain, it’s so sick
— robert franco, wandering ronin (@responsiblerob) December 15, 2023
Does he still possess physical form?
— Eric Reese (@reeseer1) December 15, 2023
He needs to go deeper, anyone requesting an audience needs to go to his base. Greta Gerwing should be forced to travel to him by submarine.
— Dr Dogbrain (@Dawggbrain) December 15, 2023
“Joining us now from his… underwater lair?”
— Aldo (@aldo_rust) December 16, 2023
It is no secret that Cameron is fond of the deep sea as he has a lot of experience with deep-sea exploration. As a kid, Cameron developed a fascination with shipwrecks so that explains why he was keen on creating a movie about the Titanic. In 2012, Cameron became the first person to do a solo descent to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Earth’s ocean, in the Deepsea Challenger submersible.
James Cameron also skipped the 95th Academy Awards
Earlier this year, Cameron shocked the industry and his fans when he didn’t show up at the 95th Academy Awards. It was indeed very odd as Cameron is, without a doubt, one of the most influential directors of the entertainment industry. Producer Jon Landau revealed that Cameron skipped the event due to “personal reasons.”
At the event, Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water earned four nominations but it seems like he is too focused on the next Avatar film, which is all set to release in 2025. That’s not it as a fourth and fifth movie is also confirmed so, it’s safe to say that Cameron will not be leaving his “man cave” for a long time.
