<p>Director <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/james-cameron-flies-one-finger-salute-to-fans-leaving-avatar-the-way-of-water-screening/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Cameron</a> laughed off a recent question about actor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/matt-damon-ill-close-my-mouth-while-paul-bois/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Damon</a> and his claim that turning down a role in the first &#8220;Avatar&#8221; film cost him millions.</p>
<p>&#8220;When was the last time you had a conversation with Matt Damon?&#8221; a BBC radio interviewer asked Cameron, who was promoting &#8220;Avatar: The Way of Water&#8221; — the long-awaited sequel to the visually-stunning 2009 film. Cameron immediately burst out laughing.</p>
<p>The context, of course, was the viral clip of Damon from the 2021 Cannes Film Festival — when he revealed that Cameron had offered him a role and a 10% stake in the massively-successful film. But the &#8220;Good Will Hunting&#8221; star was already committed to filming another installment in the highly-successful &#8220;Bourne&#8221; franchise and had to turn it down.</p>
<p>&#8220;Jim Cameron called me. He offered me ten percent of &#8216;Avatar,’” Damon said at a Cannes press event, laughing as he made the revelation. The audience laughed as well, knowing just how big a film &#8220;Avatar&#8221; had turned out to be.</p>
<p>The film ultimately <a href="https://time.com/6241639/avatar-2-costs-box-office/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raked</a> in over $2.9 billion worldwide — meaning that Damon&#8217;s paycheck, plus the proposed 10% stake, would have netted him somewhere around $250 million or even more.</p>
<p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m ">&#8220;I will go down in history,&#8221; Damon <a href="https://ew.com/movies/matt-damon-turned-down-avatar-10-percent-profits/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">said at the time</a>. &#8220;You will never meet an actor who turned down more money.&#8221;</p>
<p>Cameron suggested that Damon, who has done quite well for himself even without the $250-million boost, ought to just let it go.</p>
<p>&#8220;He’s beating himself up over this. And I really think, you know, &#8216;Matt, you’re kind of like one of the biggest movie stars in the world, get over it,’” Cameron joked — but he went on to note that it was really only the actor&#8217;s schedule that had gotten in the way. &#8220;He had to do another &#8216;Bourne&#8217; film, which was on his runway and there was nothing we could do about that. So he had to regretfully decline.&#8221;</p>
<p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m ">Cameron made it clear that he was interested in having Damon be a part of an &#8220;Avatar&#8221; film in the future, however, but it would not come with quite the same incentive. &#8220;Must do it,&#8221; Cameron said of including Damon in the franchise. &#8220;We have to do it so the world is in equilibrium again. But he doesn’t get 10%, f*** that.&#8221;</p>
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