"James Cameron has a deep empathy with nature, as anyone who's ever watched an Avatar movie can tell you. The Oscar-winning director took that further than most while making his 1989 movie The Abyss, revealing to The Hollywood Reporter that he gave a rat CPR on set to save its life. In the movie, there's a demonstration that involves immersing a rat in oxygenated water (a real, if experimental technology)."
"In the THR interview, Cameron goes on to say that he named the rat "Beanie" and kept it as a pet afterwards. "Beanie and I bonded over the whole thing," he said. "I saved his life. We were brothers. He used to sit on my desk while I was writing Terminator 2, and he lived to a ripe old age. He didn't seem particularly traumatized, though I know the film is outlawed in the U.K. because of 'animal cruelty.'""
James Cameron performed CPR on a rat during production of the 1989 film The Abyss after a close call on a sequence that immersed a rat in oxygenated water, an experimental technology. Five rats were used to film the sequence and all survived. Cameron named the rescued rat Beanie and kept it as a pet; the animal lived to a ripe old age and often sat on his desk. British edits of The Abyss omit the rat scene, and the film was removed from Disney+ in the UK over animal-cruelty concerns. Cameron later shifted to CGI animals in his Avatar films.
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