In a recent Q & A session with British GQ for "Ford vs Ferrari," Oscar-winner Matt Damon revealed that he turned down a starring role in James Cameroon's ambitious sci-fi film "Avtar." Damon was to play Jake Scully, a role that eventually went into Sam Worthington and was promised a lucrative deal of 10 % profit share.

Damon recalls the conversation, saying "Jim Cameron offered me Avatar. And when he offered it to me, he goes, 'Now, listen. I don't need anybody. I don't need a name for this, a named actor. If you don't take this, I'm going to find an unknown actor and give it to him, because the movie doesn't really need you. But if you take the part, I'll give you ten percent of...' So, on the subject of money...`

He also mentioned how he discussed this with his "Promised Land" co-writer John Krasinski and his reaction "I told John Krasinski this story when we were writing Promised Land. We're writing this movie about fracking. We're writing in the kitchen and we're on a break and I tell him the story and he goes, 'What?' And he stands up and he starts pacing in the kitchen. He goes, 'OK. OK. OK. OK. OK.' He goes, 'If you had done that movie, nothing in your life would be different. Nothing in your life would be different at all. Except that, right now, we would be having this conversation in space."

Damon doesn't seem to have any regrets on missing out as he further went on saying " I mean, the bigger thing still to this day, my bigger regret is - it would have caused a problem for Paul Greengrass and for all my friends on The Bourne Ultimatum, so I couldn't do it - but Cameron said to me in the course of that conversation, 'Well, you know, I've only made six movies.' I didn't realize that. He works so infrequently, but his movies, you know all of them. So it feels like he's made more than he has. I realized in having to say no that I was probably passing on the chance to ever work with him. So that sucked and that's still brutal. But my kids are all eating. I'm doing OK,"

Matt Damon will be seen alongside Christian Bale in James Mangold's "Ford vs Ferrari" which is scheduled for a theatrical release of November 15, 2019. He also has a cameo in Kevin Smith's "Jay and Silent Bob Reboot."