James Cameron tells Matt Damon to 'get over it' over lost Avatar role

James Cameron has told Matt Damon to finally get over losing the role of Jake Sully in Avatar.

For the 2009 epic, several actors were considered for the role of Sully, including Damon, Chris Pratt, Chris Pine, Chris Evans, Channing Tatum, and Jake Gyllenhaal.

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Ultimately, Sam Worthington earned the role but only after Damon had to turn it down. Cameron offered Sully to Damon, who couldn't commit to filming due to his part in the Bourne franchise.

The actor recently revealed that he lost out on over $100 million as Cameron offered him a percentage of the takings.

"I was offered a little movie called Avatar, James Cameron offered me 10% of it," Deadline reported from the Cannes Film Festival.

"I will go down in history. You will never meet an actor who turned down more money."

Cameron has now told Damon, tongue-in-cheek, to get over the loss in earnings, but did offer him the chance to appear in a future instalment of the Avatar franchise.

"He’s beating himself up over this," the director told Radio 1.

"And I really think you know, 'Matt, you’re kind of like one of the biggest movie stars in the world, get over it.' But he had to do another Bourne film which was on his runway and there was nothing we could do about that. So he had to regretfully decline.

 "We must do it," he said of a future collaboration.

"We have to do it so the world is in equilibrium again. But he doesn’t get 10%."

Cameron is currently promoting Avatar: The Way of Water, the highly-anticipated sequel to Avatar.