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On Oct. 26, 2020, a social media post alleged English actress Kate Winslet said she held her breath for seven minutes and 14 seconds underwater while filming Avatar. The tweet, displayed below, included a photo of Winslet fully submerged underwater in a wetsuit, and was from the official account of the sci-fi movie franchise by James Cameron. The claim was true. While shooting Avatar 2 — which was scheduled to open in theaters in December 2021, as of this writing — Winslet trained to do underwater performance capture that required her to hold her breath for several minutes underwater while videographers recorded her movements. While speaking at an IMAX event to promote a different project in February 2019 (video here), Avatar 2 producer Jon Landau said: Then, more than year later, on Aug. 26, 2020, The Hollywood Reporter published a profile story about Winslet, in which she told the writer: I had to learn how to free-dive to play that role in 'Avatar', and that was just incredible. My longest breath hold was seven minutes and 14 seconds, like crazy, crazy stuff. It was unclear why the Avatar Twitter account advertised the stunt more than two months later with the photo and alleged quote by Winslet, which went viral. Media outlets ranging from Business Insider to Fox News to People covered the tweet, and Winslet did another round of interviews about the stunt. She told Entertainment Tonight for a story that published Nov. 10: According to Guinness World Records, 24 minutes and roughly three seconds is the global record for someone holding their breath underwater. In sum, considering the visual evidence of the underwater film, which was released from the verified Twitter account of the Avatar franchise, as well as the interviews by Winslet in which she described holding her breath for seven minutes and 14 seconds, we rate this claim True.
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