Matt Damon denied James Cameron when he offered him the part of Jake Sully in 2009's Avatar, even after Cameron offered him 10% of the movies.
Most entertainers would have quickly said yes to anything James Cameron offered them, and regardless of whether they weren't persuaded about the job, they would doubtlessly be persuaded about getting 10% of the movies, regardless of whether the film slumped.
In a meeting with British GQ in 2019, Matt expressed:
James Cameron offered me Avatar.
What's more, when he offered it to me, he goes, 'Presently, tune in. I needn't bother with anyone. I needn't bother with a name for this, a named entertainer. In the event that you don't take this, I will track down an obscure entertainer and offer it to him, on the grounds that the film doesn't actually require you. Yet, on the off chance that you take the part, I'll give you 10% of [the box office]…
Truly, that isn't the manner by which I would attempt to get an entertainer to sign onto my film, however he's James Cameron, so I surmise he can.
Symbol made $2,789,679,794. in the cinema world prior to being ousted in 2019 by Avengers Endgame which made $2,797,501,328. This year Avatar recovered the seat by making $57,566,409 in China and totalling $2,847,246,203.
Despite the fact that 10% of the $2,847,246,203 would be in Matt's wallet ($284,724,620 to be careful) that isn't his lament with regards to declining to sign onto the venture:
Thus, no doubt. I've left more cash on the table than any entertainer really.
That is to say, the greater thing still right up 'til the present time, my greater lament is – it would have caused an issue for Paul Greengrass and for every one of my companions on The Bourne Ultimatum, so I was unable to do it – yet Cameron said to me over the span of that discussion, "Indeed, you know, I've just made six films." I didn't understand that. He works so rarely, yet his motion pictures, you know every one of them. So it seems like he's made more than he has.
I understood in saying no that I was presumably giving the opportunity to at any point work with him. So that sucked that is as yet ruthless. Be that as it may, my children are largely eating. I'm doing OK.
It truly shows what sort of man Matt is by declining to work with Cameron on a particularly huge task to not frustrate his companions and group of The Bourne Ultimatum.
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