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Matt Damon Talks Turning Down ‘Avatar’, Almost Directing ‘Manchester By The Sea’ & Diversity In His Films At Engaging Cannes Masterclass

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Matt Damon has his audience in stitches during his Cannes Film Festival masterclass today.The actor, here premiering Stillwater, discussed how he had turned down the lead role in mega-blockbuster Avatar, despite James Cameron offering him a chunk of the film’s profits (it would go on to gross $2.8BN globally).“I was offered a little movie called Avatar, James Cameron offered me 10% of it,” he recalled. “I will go down in history… you will never meet an actor who turned down more money.”Damon said he couldn’t do the movie because he was shooting the Jason Bourne movies and took the “moral” decision not leave that franchise in the lurch.

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