There's no way a roomful of journos were gonna pass up asking Terminator Salvation star Sam Worthington about his next film, director James Cameron's long-awaited 3D sci-fi saga Avatar, when the actor appeared at today's Terminator junket in Beverly Hills. So the questions hit Worthington fast and hard as soon as he entered the room. Find out what he had to say about Avatar, and what we asked him about his other upcoming epic, the Clash of the Titans remake, after the jump!

Regarding Avatar, Worthington said, "Jim's very clever in the sense that he tried to make it as real as possible. So even though you're in a big, gray soundstage, for want of a better word, with nothing there, he'll try to give you as much as possible to make the terrain, the place, real. So there'll be plants to walk through; if there's an explosion, they'll throw shit at ya. It's things like that. Because acting is reacting. So you can't just react to nothing. That's too hard a task to ask of any actor. You always need something tangible."

"You're never dictated by the technology with Jim. Jim is paramount to the actors. Everybody thinks that he's technology driven – he's the best fucking acting director I've ever worked with. He picks up on subtleties and details like you wouldn't believe. So he's employed me to come in and do my job. Then we use the technology, and I work with him. It's give and take. Jim isn't a dictator. He wants it fucking high, but so do I. I'm not there to get pushed around. I'm there to work with the man. That's why I got the job – because I don't get pushed around. I go, ‘Look, I've done ten years in Australia. I didn't do that for nothing.' You know what I mean? We work together. It's a privilege to work with directors who like pushing the boundaries, like taking risks. Like McG, who's taking a helluva risk on this movie. He's risking his own career. That's what I like – to be part of that."

When asked what the director thought of Worthington winning a role in the franchise that Cameron himself created, Worthington remarked, "I said they wanted me to do it. And I said, ‘Here's my take on the character…' I think he just told me, ‘Don't fuck it up,' and that was about it. Then he went back to filming Avatar. As he said, he wants to look at it as a fan."

We made sure to ask Worthington about the third anticipated genre epic in which he'll be starring, as Perseus in director Louis (Incredible Hulk) Leterrier's remake of Clash of the Titans.

"It's filming at the moment," he told us. "Who wouldn't want to run around in a dress and kill the Kraken? That's the appeal. I read the script and then jumped around in the bed with a ruler. My girlfriend's looking at me like I'm nuts. She said, ‘This is the one you're gonna do, isn't it?' I said, ‘It's deep. Trust me.'"

Worthington laughed and continued, "I had a take on it that I gave Louis and the studio, and they're mad enough to let me loose and see if it can work."

We asked Worthington how his Clash will differ from that of the original:

"We've been filming it for two weeks now, and I'm more bruised and battered than I was on Terminator. But we took on the Medusa. We took on the witches. We took on the scorpions. Then we just kill everything else! It's a bit more brutal. There's no togas, or there's very little togas. I said, ‘I'm not wearing a toga. Bugger that.' It's hard to look many in a toga. I'm sorry, but I can't do it… Louis is a very good action director, so it's gonna be exciting and big. And my job is to bring the heart."

When asked how his take on Perseus will differ from the original film's, actor Harry Hamlin, Worthington responded with a laugh, "I'm gonna play it exactly the same!" He then quickly added, "How different is he? It's hard for me to discuss that because I'm in the middle of it. Some of that I can tell you when we go and promote that movie, whether it worked or not. I'm in the middle of discovering whether the take's gonna work."