Matt Damon could’ve been living it up in blue — or almost definitely in green. Damon said not only did he pass on the opportunity to star in James Cameron’s “Avatar,” but also on Cameron’s offer to earn a cut of the film’s profits.
In an interview with British GQ from Tuesday, the “Ford v. Ferrari” star said that Cameron offered him a whopping 10 percent of the film’s profits. That would’ve been roughly a quarter of a billion dollars of the film’s $2.7 billion that it made following its release in 2009. It’s the second-biggest movie of all time, bested only by this year’s “Avengers: Endgame” (if you discount inflation).