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>> it's fun being the villain. he's half an inch from being a hero. >> larry: he should be the good guy. he's the american. >> in another time and another place and conflict, he would be the hero. >> larry: he's the baddest of bad guys. do you want to see for yourself? watch this. >> you're on pandora, ladies and gentlemen. respect that fact. every second of every day. if there is a hell, you might want to go there for some r & r after a tour on pandora. out there beyond that fence, every living thing that crawls, flies or squats in the mud wants to kill you and eat your eyes.

>> the thing we were worried about most was this. this is where movies live and breathe in the tight close-up. the part we had to create during the making of this film was the technology that allowed what the actors did to 100% translate to what you see the characters doing. we came up with this idea that we would have a little boom and on the end of that boom there would be a tiny camera and image the face while the actor was working so it captured every nuance of how their lips moved and how facial muscles moved and how their eyes moved. joining us from new york is stephen lang. he plays h...

Yeah. i came into the game after he had manifested the entire planet of pandora. all of the foliage. all of the nutrients. the movement of the helicopter was already premeditated. whenever i had a question about, you know, what that green screen outside of the cockpit window consists of, i would tap him on the shoulder and can you help me out here and i would go to a screen and he would play it out for me. it was all done. >> larry: how about the physical aspects? was there a lot of that for you? >> i got a bit of training. i got to work with modified guns. i got to fly in a chopper across los...

Physically? >> actually, the performance capturer which had us running around in these black leotards with cameras on our heads and green dots on our faces, jim made sure that we felt very at ease with all of it. we were in a big empty space. there were a lot of technicians and computers on the side but the experience of working on the scenes with each other was like an early rehearsal on a stage really. he also invented this magical camera where you could actually look in his lens and see what you would look like as your avatar in the rain forest in pandora. that was so extraordinary. that wa...

>> larry: we will be with our amazing moments. i'm going to go to pandora any minute now. you will see how i look when i get there maybe later i will learn nabi, unusual for a jewish person. we will be right back.