Matt Damon lost $250 million on an Avatar cancellation and still hasn’t gotten over it. Now director James Cameron is responding to his regrets.
Avatar – Off to Pandora is the most successful film of all time with 2.5 billion US dollars in box office takings. And Matt Damon is one of Hollywood’s biggest jinxes. Director James Cameron offered the star ten per cent of the box office takings of Avatar 2: The Way of Water, in addition to the lead role. And still has to console him for the loss 13 years later.
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“You’ll never meet an actor who turned down more money,” Damon told Entertainment Weekly as recently as 2021 . Cameron prefers to respond to the long-term regret with some good advice. Variety he said:
“He’s castigating himself about it. Matt, you’re one of the biggest movie stars in the world, get over it! He had to do another Bourne movie [The Bourne Ultimatum] [at the time] and he turned [the offer] down because of that. “
Jokingly, he also addresses the idea of giving Damon a cameo in the upcoming Avatar films in the interview. It’s necessary if only so that the world is back in balance, the director says. “But he’s not getting ten per cent. Fuck it. “
