Hot Sam and Zoe Spill Avatar Secrets!

Gorgeous Aussie man's man Sam Worthington, who stars in director/writer Jim Cameron's amazing 3-D, sci-fi film Avatar (we saw it last night and were ultra-WOWED!) told us a joke about wearing revealing G-Strings and a bit about trying to speak an alien language!

Zoe Saldana who plays a sexy, strong alien huntress and Sam's love interest in the movie, gave us the scoop on girl-power, being labeled "Sci-Fi girl" and how she feels about appearing as a tall, sexy blue CG woman in the movie.

Sam: We went to Hawaii for (tropical forest reference) and we had to wear tails and ears and a flimsy G-string and run around basically half-naked pretending to be our characters.

Some guy came up to me and said 'what are you doing here in Hawaii?' 'Filmin' a movie, man, obviously' and he looked over and there was Jim Cameron with a rudimentary handi-cam (flip cam) taking some reference shots, and he says 'So that's the director, James Cameron? F**k, he's come a long way down since Titanic poor guy!

Hilarious! How were you at learning the alien Na'vi language? Zoe is telling us... pretty bad.

Sam: Hey, I have enough trouble with English! Plus having to be American and then Na'vi. I took the approach that Jake didn't know Na'vi, he learned it as the movie went along. He was learning as he goes and I was learning as I went so that made my job a bit easier. It's hard. I couldn't roll my R's.

Zoe: You still can't!  It was tons of fun. Even the sounds like (she makes a weird clicking sound with her tongue) were crazy.  My mom would look at me like I was crazy. We'd be at a dinner table and would have to be making that sound. I think it was the curiosity and excitement of doing something so new and so unique and so creative.

I speak Spanish and the vowels are very similar to the Latin tongue but the hardest thing to me was speaking English with a Na'vi accent. I sounded (very posh) like the queen.

Zoe, do you worry that you'll be labeled "sci-fi girl" after Star Trek and this film?

Zoe: I wish there were more genres (other than sci-fi) where women could have the opportunities to be presented as what we are. We are complex creatures, we have journeys and we can be the heroes and we can save everything and we can also be vulnerable and can be saved as well. All this in one person! That would be wonderful.  

In the film we never see you as you... only as the tall, blue hot-looking Na'vi Neytiri. How do you feel about that?

Zoe: It's a human condition for us to be prone to vanity especially as actors but I feel that this role is the best that has ever crossed my path. It gave me the opportunity to give everyone 150 percent of myself every day. When I see Neytiri, I actually see me in my entirety and that's a very emotional feeling for me to have.

Director/screenwriter James Cameron joked about a possible sequel after Sam and Zoe's characters become a couple in Avatar.

Cameron: We've joked about going back ten years later and Jake (Sam's character) is on the couch in the new home tree saying 'Honey, get me a beer" and Neytiri is like "get your own beer.'  That's the reality of a romance ten years later.

Seriously though?

Cameron: It makes sense to think of this as a potential start of a franchise or a saga that plays out over several acts, each movie being an act. I have it mapped out but I haven't written the scripts yet. It depends on if we do well with the first film.

With the knock-out effects, exciting action and romance, we think he'll be writing that sequel soon.