Matt Damon Turned Down Avatar, Lost 280 Mil
LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 10: Actor Matt Damon attends the Project Greenlight Season 4 Winning Film premiere "The Leisure Class" presented by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Adaptive Studios and HBO at The Theatre at Ace Hotel on August 10, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Angela Weiss/Getty Images)
Well, we all wiff sometimes….
Matt Damon shared the time he turned down the role of Jack in Avatar, because he was in the middle of his Jason Borne franchise. Damon says if he took the role, he would have earned by now $280 million. No worries, Damon is just fine with a reported worth of $190 million.
Damon’s pal The Office star, Boston’s John Krasinski said to him: “if you took the role your life would be no different, except we’d be having this conversation in space.”
What other stars have turned down the roles of their life?
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