Matt Damon On Rejecting James Cameron's Avatar: 'You Will Never Meet An Actor Who Turned Down More Money'

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Los Angeles, July 10, 2021: The Thor: Love and Thunder actor, Matt Damon, may be one of the biggest Hollywood stars, but he will still be known for rejecting one of the biggest movies ever made, and with that, a golden chance to become an overnight millionaire.

The 50-year-old actor taught a master class at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday and revealed how he had turned down the lead role in mega-blockbuster Avatar, despite James Cameron offering him a chunk of the film's profits.



"I was offered a little movie called 'Avatar'," the star revealed, according to Deadline". [Director] James Cameron offered me 10% of it". For the record, Avatar is the highest-grossing movie ever with $2.8 billion at the box office.

"I will go down in history… you will never meet an actor who turned down more money", Damon continued at Cannes where his crime drama film, Stillwater premiered.

When someone in the audience pointed out that James Cameron is well underway on his sequels to the movie, Damon joked, "There are sequels? Oh my god". He, however, reasoned that he was shooting the Jason Bourne movies when Avatar was offered to him and took the "moral" decision not to leave that franchise in the lurch.



In Damon's place, Sam Worthington was cast in the lead role and earned an award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for his work but presumably didn't get 10% of the original's profits.

Avatar, which also starred Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, among others, was released in 2009 and its sequel is gearing up for the worldwide debut on 16 December 2022, followed by 3 more films in the franchise in 2024, 2026, and 2028. The sequels are expected to add several big names to the franchise including Kate Winslet, Vin Diesel, Edie Falco, and Michelle Yeoh.

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