Edie Falco 'took a lot of flack' for thinking “Avatar 2” was a box office bomb before it had been released

"I got a lot of phone calls from a lot of very important people."

Edie Falco does not pay much attention to how her films fare after she finishes shooting them, a trait which landed her in hot water with James Cameron.

The Sopranos star recently revealed on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show With Julia Cunningham that after an infamous 2022 flub on The View, in which she recalled thinking Avatar: The Way of Water must have bombed after its release because she hadn't heard about it, Cameron quickly made his displeasure known. "I heard straight from the source who was with him when he heard that I had said that, that it did not go well," she said. "I took a lot of flack for that."

Falco explained that during her appearance on The View, "All I was saying is I'm a jerk. I never know what's going on with my life. Specifically that a movie like Avatar, which has made 4 gazillion dollars, the fact that I wouldn't know" whether or not it had even been released reflects her own state of mind than her view of the movie's success. But "it was not taken like that," she explained, "and I got a lot of phone calls from a lot of very important people."

Falco plays one of The Way of Water's villains, General Ardmore. Ardmore is tasked with "taming" Pandora and quelling Na'vi resistance, which leads her to dispatch orders to kill Sam Worthington's Jake Sully. It's a critical role, but for Falco, that role stops when the camera stops rolling.

"I make these things, I do the job, I say goodbye to everybody, and then I'm done," she noted. "Then I'm onto the next thing. I have no idea what happens to things after I'm done."

While continuing to discuss the Avatar gaffe she made on The View, she recalled saying "the second one that's coming out, I think I shot four years ago and then I've been busy. I'm doing stuff and somebody mentioned Avatar and I thought, 'Oh I guess it came out and didn't do very well.'" The point of the anecdote, she later clarified to Cunningham, wasn't to undercut Avatar's box office viability, but illustrate her own unawareness. "I am a dolt," she joked.

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Falco has been acting in films and television since the late 1980s. She's starred in some of the most successful series of all time (The Sopranos, Nurse Jackie), and starred in just as many projects most people have never even heard of. At this point in her career, "I love the part of doing it," she said. "The part of watching, it has nothing to do with me."

She continued, "Things can come out or they don't. They do well or they disappear. They go straight to video or nobody finishes. I have no idea 'cause it often doesn't affect my life in any way. My part of what I do is done."

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Avatar: The Way of Water would of course go on to become one of the most profitable films in the history of film, grossing over a billion dollars and cementing Cameron at the helm of the franchise for at least three more films.

Falco played a not insignificant role in the film's success, and is slated to return for the threequel, Avatar: Fire and Ash. It sounds like all those phone calls had their intended effect; this one she'll probably watch.

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