“Avatar: Fire and Ash” Cast Shares Tips for Staying Seated Through a 3-Hour Movie (Exclusive)
- - “Avatar: Fire and Ash” Cast Shares Tips for Staying Seated Through a 3-Hour Movie (Exclusive)
Tommy McArdle, Scott HuverDecember 20, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Avatar: Fire and Ash cast members give PEOPLE their tips for sitting through a long movie, at the film's Dec. 1 world premiere
The third installment in James Cameron's Avatar franchise is approximately 3 hours and 15 minute long
Avatar: Fire and Ash is in theaters now
James Cameron's latest sequel, Avatar: Fire and Ash is the franchise's longest yet at about 3 hours and 15 minutes. What's a moviegoer to do when they sit down to return to Pandora?
At Fire and Ash's Dec. 1 world premiere in Los Angeles, PEOPLE asked the cast, including Stephen Lang, Jack Champion, Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Dileep Rao and Bailey Bass, for their tips to stay seated without an intermission.
"You know what the strategy is? You hit the head early, right?" Lang, 73, who plays Miles Quaritch in the Avatar movies, tells PEOPLE. "You keep the Diet Coke to a minimum."
Champion, 21, told PEOPLE on the red carpet that he had already stopped drinking water in the run-up to the world premiere. (Champion joined the Avatar franchise with 2022's The Way of Water as Spider, Quaritch's human son who is raised by Sam Worthington's Jake Sully and his Na'vi children in between the events of 2009's Avatar and its sequels.)
"I do not want to get up in the middle of this giant premiere and [have] everyone look at me and be like, 'Oh, that's the guy that got up,' " he says. "And I'm waddling to the bathroom in shame. Yeah, I don't want that."
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Sam Worthington in Avatar: Fire and Ash
Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, who portrays the youngest child of the Sully clan, Tuk, says she does not "drink much leading up" to a major premiere for a long movie like Fire and Ash.
"If I'm like, 'I'm going to experience this,' I'm going to be here, I'm going to ride it out. But depending on the film, I kind of just forget about it because I'm so in the film and in with these characters. I mean, that was definitely me for Fire and Ash," she says. "I literally lived it and filmed it, and yet I was on the edge of my seat."
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Sigourney Weaver in Avatar: Fire and Ash
"Do not bring your giant soda because you'll have to pee somewhere around two hours in," Rao, who portrays Dr. Max Patel, tells fans.
"But a lot of that stuff is psychosomatic, right? Once you get absorbed into what you're watching, you can sort of not have to pee. I have experienced that," he adds. "I know as an artist and an audience member myself, I know one of my mind starts to wander and I'm like, 'Oh, I'll go pee.' Right? That doesn't happen to me in a Jim Cameron movie. It just doesn't. I don't experience it that way."
Bass, who plays Kate Winslet and Cliff Curtis' onscreen daughter as Tsiryea of the Metkayina clan, suggests that audience members use the restroom before the movie starts and says the film felt like it went by so fast.
"It's like when you're at amusement park, you know you don't go to the bathroom usually," she says. "And this one is so much more action-packed than any other Avatar before. So it honestly, for me, went by so fast."
Avatar: Fire and Ash is in theaters now.
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