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Headline: James Cameron disputes Matt Damon's claim that he was offered lead role in Avatar

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The Bourne Identity actor hit headlines by claiming that Cameron offered him the lead role of Jake Sully as well as 10 per cent of the film's gross but he turned it down due to a scheduling conflict with a Bourne movie.As 2009's Avatar and its 2022 sequel, The Way of the Water, are the first and third highest-grossing movies of all time, taking over $2 billion each at the box office, Damon believes he lost out on hundreds of millions of dollars.

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