Actor Matt Damon had refused James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ and turned down a huge amount of money that any actor can ever imagine. In a recent interview with CNN, the actor revealed why he made this decision.
“I did. I had, I had. I had a contract… I was in the middle of shooting the Bourne movie, and I knew that we were going to need work at the end, and I had to get it all the way to the finish line, and I would have to leave the movie kind of early and leave them in the lurch a little bit, and I didn’t want to do that. I desperately wanted to work with Cameron. I mean, because he worked so rarely,” Matt said in the interview.
Matt also shared an interesting anecdote about telling actor-director John Krasinski about his decision. “It would have… my favorite reaction to this was when I told John Krasinski. We were writing this little movie a long time ago called ‘Promised Land,’ and we were in my kitchen on a Saturday morning, on a break, and I said, ‘Yeah, I’ll tell him about Avatar,’ and he launches himself out of the chair. He starts pacing the kitchen, he goes, okay, okay, okay. Okay, okay. Nothing in your life would be different today if you had done that movie, except you and I would be having this conversation in space. I would have been the same guy; I just would have had a space station,” Matt shared.
As per CNN’s report, the actor was offered $250 million for the role in ‘Avatar.’
On his work front, Matt was last seen in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer,’ alongside actors like Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, and Robert Downey Jr.
‘Avatar,’ released in 2009, became one of the highest-grossing films of all time, earning $2.92 billion dollars worldwide.
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