- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Published on: December 11, 2009
When the movie Avatar opens one week from today, watch Sigourney Weaver carefully. She was coached to dress, move and act like a botanist by UC Riverside professor of plant physiology Jodie Holt.
"I met with her in her trailer in a sound studio in Playa del Rey in Los Angeles, and we had a long conversation," Holt said in a question-and-answer session that was written up by UC Riverside News Service. "I gave Weaver advice on topics like how a botanist would approach a plant and take samples."
That was two years ago. In 2008,...
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