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James Cameron Reveals He Nearly Died In Terrifying Accident While Making 1 Of His Films

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James Cameron is opening up about the time he narrowly escaped death on the set of his 1989 film The Abyss.

While appearing at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles on a panel after a screening of The Abyss: Special Edition, the filmmaker revealed that he nearly didn’t survive to see the film actually hit the cinemas due to an underwater mishap, according to Variety.

“We had the ‘angels,’ which were the safety divers that were right there, and each one was assigned to one or two of the actors and just kept them in sight the whole time. [But] they weren’t watching me,” Cameron said of the precautions his team had in place for everyone’s safety while filming.

Cameron explained that the movie was shot “30 feet down” under water, which meant he had to wear “heavy weights” around his feet and waist to keep him submerged so he could move his camera around.

But one day on set, the unthinkable happened.

The director said he ran out of air at one point and tried to alert the underwater director of photography, Al Giddings, on the PA system.

His warnings fell on deaf ears though, as Cameron explained to the panel’s moderator, Jim Hemphill, that Giddings “had been involved in a diving accident and he blew out both eardrums”.

“I’m wasting my last breath of air on an underwater p.a. system going ‘Al… Al…’ and he’s working away with his back to me,” he added of the horrifying incident.

Cameron said that he was able to remove his gear and tried to resurface to get air, but that’s when another hiccup took place.

He said the “angels” began trying to help him, but wound up making matters worse by shoving a faulty breathing mask in his mouth.

“He sticks a regulator in my mouth that he didn’t check. It had been banging around the bottom of the tank for three weeks and had a rip through the diaphragm, so I purged carefully and took a deep breath… of water. And then I purged it again, and I took another deep breath… of water,” he said.

“At that point it was almost check-out point and the safety divers are taught to hold you down so you don’t embolise and let your lungs overexpand going up,” he continued.

Cameron said though he knew what he was doing as an experienced diver, but the safety diver wouldn’t let him go.

This left the Titanic filmmaker only one choice…to throw blows at the diving assistant.

“I had no way to tell him the regulator wasn’t working. So I punched him in the face and swam to the surface and therefore survived,” Cameron shared.

The Abyss was considered a box-office disappointment when it released, only earning around $9 million (£7.38 million) in the US. The film was initially met with mixed reviews, but later became a cult classic.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Nearly Ruined One Of The Most Famous Lines In Movie History

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Screen legend Arnold Schwarzenegger says one of his best-known catchphrases, which became one of the most repeated lines in movie history, almost didn’t happen.

In a new documentary series, Schwarzenegger admits that he lobbied to change the iconic “I’ll be back” line from The Terminator – which wasn’t even the original line anyway.

James Cameron, who wrote the script with Gale Anne Hurd and directed the film, said in the Netflix series Arnold that the line was supposed to be, “I’ll come back”.

“It wasn’t meant to be, like, a big moment, at all,” James said. “It was literally meant to be, on its face, ‘No problem, I’ll come back, I’ll come back.’”

Schwarzenegger didn’t use the line.

“I said, ‘Well, just say I’ll be back, keep it simple’,” James said.

But Schwarzenegger didn’t love it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger last month
Arnold Schwarzenegger last month

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“I said, ‘Jim, to me it sounds funny to say I’ll be back,’” Schwarzenegger said. He thought ditching the contraction would make him sound more machine-like, and wanted to say a more robotic “I will be back” instead.

“And he says, ‘Are you the writer?’” Schwarzenegger recalled. “And I said, ‘No.’ He says, ‘Well, don’t tell me how to fucking write.’”

Schwarzenegger tested out the line: “I’ll be back” and James Cameron told him he got goosebumps hearing it.

He’s not alone.

“I’ll be back” is ranked 37th in the American Film Institute’s list of 100 Greatest Movie Quotes Of All Time, and 19th in the top 100 as voted by entertainment industry readers of The Hollywood Reporter.

“So this just shows to you who was right and who was wrong,” Schwarzenegger said with a laugh.

The three-part Arnold docuseries is now streaming on Netflix. The discussion of The Terminator comes in the second episode, which focuses on Schwarzenegger’s film career.

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