Matt Damon is working with Zoe Saldana for Stella Artois' new Let's Do Dinner campaign, but he had the chance to team up with her a long time ago.
The 52-year-old actor was offered the lead role in James Cameron's 2009 film , where he would have starred alongside Saldana and would have earned around $250 million.
The role instead went to Sam Worthington, who played Jake Sully, while Saldana portrayed Neytiri. The big-budget movie follows a paraplegic Marine (Worthington) dispatched to the moon Pandora, where Neytiri resides, for a unique mission.
He soon becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home now.«It’s the dumbest thing an actor ever did in the history of acting,» Damon told ET's Rachel Smith of turning down the role.
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