reece thompson He made his film debut at the age of 5 with titanicthe 1997 hit directed by James Cameron and starring Leonardo Dicaprio and Kate Winslet. The young man played the role of an Irish boy who dies in the famous shipwreck.
A quarter of a century later, the actor continues to collect royalties for his participation in what for more than a decade was the highest-grossing film in history.
In an interview with Business Insider, the 30-year-old revealed how much money he still earns from that job. The actor put himself in the shoes of a third-class passenger, an Irish boy who dies along with his mother and his sister in the tragedy.
Thompson appears in three scenes of Cameron’s film and utters a single line of text as chaos erupts on the Belfast-built ocean liner. The interpreter says that he does not remember much of that experience on set, although he continues to charge for it.
The child actor was paid at that time a fixed fee for his stay on the set that amounted to about 25 thousand dollars. The money he earned was deposited in a bank account and, according to him, has since been used for his education, the purchase of a car and living expenses.
“It’s funny, because this is no longer present in my mind. It’s not like I’m like, ‘Oh, when am I going to get a new Titanic check? But when it happens, it’s like, ‘Oh great, $100 extra,’” Thompson said in the interview.
“There were a couple of times where I was like, ‘Oh, this is a check for 250. This movie is 25 years old and that’s pretty weird, but I hope it continues to make a lot of money, because that means more money for me.”, he concluded.
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