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Suzy Amis Cameron shared a rare comment about her life with director James Cameron
“After 30 years, there’s never a moment we don’t have something to talk about,” she told The Hollywood Reporter for their cover story on the critically-acclaimed filmmaker
The couple first met on the set of Titanic, which James directed and Suzy acted in, and later married in 2000
James Cameron and Suzy Amis Cameron couldn’t be happier.
In a rare interview with The Hollywood Reporter for their cover story on Cameron, Suzy Amis Cameron, his wife, describes their life together in New Zealand.
“It’s us walking around the house in socks, being voracious readers, building fires and hanging out — after 30 years, there’s never a moment we don’t have something to talk about,” she told the outlet.
The critically-acclaimed director, 70, and the former actress, 63, first met in 1997 on the set of Titanic, which James directed and Suzy appeared in as Lizzy Calvert. The couple tied the knot in 2000, and then went on to welcome three daughters: Claire, Quinn and Elizabeth Rose Cameron.
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Suzy Amis Cameron (left) and James Cameron in 2023
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Speaking to the outlet, Suzy recalled the moment James went on a deep-sea dive (6.6 miles to be exact) to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean using the Deepsea Challenger, a submersible he helped craft in 2012. Cameron’s venture set the world record for the first solo dive to the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the trench.
Suzy remembered feeling “beyond nervous I would never see him again.” All those feelings subsided, she said, when she saw that James was “just so excited; like a little kid. He’d been working on it for years, and you can’t hold that back from somebody.”
James turned the journey into a sweet moment when he said, “I love you, baby,” over the sub’s radio to Suzy in the 2014 documentary Deepsea Challenge. He continued, “I love you, wife… all the way from the heart of the ocean.”
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Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) in ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’
Suzy not only relishes James’ adventurous side, she’s also a big fan of his directorial work.
When she first saw the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s third installment of his Avatar franchise, Avatar: Fire and Ash, he said she “bawled for four hours.”
“She kept trying to get her s— back together so she could tell me specific reactions, and then she’d just tear up and start crying again,” James told Empire in March 2025. “Finally, I’m like, ‘Honey, I’ve got to go to bed. Sorry, we’ll talk about it some other time.’ “
He continued, “She’s a pretty good bellwether. She called the ball on Titanic and Avatar and Avatar 2. So I trust her heart on it.”
The third film in the Avatar series will show the Na’vi people in a different light than the franchise’s first two films.
Speaking to France’s 20 Minutes in 2023, James said, “The fire will be represented by the ‘Ash People’ … In the early films, there are very negative human examples and very positive Na’vi examples. In Avatar 3, we will do the opposite.”
Returning to the franchise are stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Joel David Moore, Jack Champion, Stephen Lang and Britain Dalton. Additionally, Oona Chaplin will join the film series as Varang, the leader of the “Ashe People.”
Avatar: Fire and Ash hits theaters Dec. 19, 2025.
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