American actor Matt Damon has admitted that he rejected an offer to play the lead role in the film “Avatar”, thus giving up the highest fee in the history of cinema, Deadline reported.
“I was once offered to play in a small movie called ‘Avatar.’ Director James Cameron was willing to pay me 10 percent of the box office. Now, I’m going to go down in history: you’ve never met an actor who gave up a large sum before, “Damon joked during a conversation with reporters at the Cannes Film Festival, where he is with Tom McCarthy’s film Stillwater, shown outside the competition program.
The film “Avatar”, released in 2009, is a record for worldwide profits: they amount to 2,798,579,794 (more than 2 billion and 798 million) dollars. And you can figure out for yourself what fee Matt Damon missed, calculating 10% of that amount: almost $ 280 million.
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