Is there another trick you want to show me before I get out of character?

Just did. After we can do the cartwheel.

Uh-huh. As an Navi in the beginning, during and at the end. How you would do it?

I'll start with. Think about it.

What's up, guys? Leslie Robbins here for Young Hollywood at the Forum in Los Angeles. I'm about to take you behind the scenes of another Cirque du Soleil show. This one based on an Oscar-winning movie. And the reason I'm in workout gear and makeup-free, I'm about to be transformed to join the show. All right, I am behind the scenes at Toruk, The First Flight. Guillaume Paquet, one of the leads of the show. Now, this is based on the huge movie Avatar. James Cameron. Yeah. So you're gonna make me blue.

Yeah, today we're gonna do the makeup, so I'm gonna do the makeup on you, and after we're gonna have the chance to maybe do some acrobatics, so we're ready.

Let's do it. Let's do this.

We have the cream. That is blue. It is blue. We're gonna put different shade of blue on you.

That's going to be me.

Yeah, it's going to be you. I think it's perfect for you. Let's try it.

I can't. Are we ready?

Ready. Yeah. Before. Okay, first, this cream on your face. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So now we're putting this all over. So now we're gonna do the shading.

The shading. Got it.

Yeah. And now we're gonna do the lines on the forehead. Now you're getting into it. Oh, yeah. Cuz you bend the knees, getting in. Yeah. #I love my job. I think we're good. It's done.

It's done? Yes. I have to look now. Yes. The big reveal. Oh my God! It's so much. Oh my God! Wow. Wow. Oh, there's more. Yeah. And the tail. Every gal needs a little tail. There you go. Sign me up. So, here we are your workout room. Appropriately blue carpet.

It is. We warm up here, and after we're here to to watch the TV and see what we did on stage, to take notes and be ready for the other show. But we're here to train. You want it to do circus now?

Yeah, well I'm dressed for the circus. You are? Yeah. You have your tail? Here's my tail. And then. Ready?

Ready? Yes. That's good. Push. Push your shoulder. Legs a bit behind. Yes. Where's the tail? Yeah, the tail was just behind. That's good. Usually we, when we also, we need to mix the acrobatics with the character and the Navi movement. You need to always think that you're a Navi. So what's the face? Usually we, when we go to a squat, the position of, you can listen by your ears. Really instinctive. So you hear a noise and you just That's good. It's the in between the human and the cat.

Yes. Exactly. And if I do So as a performer, what goes into prepping you for a show like this?

Stretching, of course. Yeah, I would say stretching, and training, but it's a project that take your whole life. Like, I did circus since I'm seven, so it's really my body has been preparing for this, and it's still preparing all my life. Like, it's a big process, so and you need to always keep it up. And when you have an injury, like it happened, you really need to take care of it by eating nicely, training, all around is so important for yeah. So, I'm ready to just, I'm the young one that's ready to do.

You're ready to go and go and go and go. Oh, yeah. The experience are just beginning now. It's my beginning and it's a good one, I think. So. Well, this was my beginning, and now it has to end, though. Yes. Is there another trick you want to show me before I get out of character?

I can, I I can. Just did. After we can do the cartwheel.

Uh-huh. As an Navi in the beginning, during and at the end. How you would do it?

I'll start like. Think about it. Ah! Keep the Navi. I a-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya!

Yes. That was so cool.