Reece Thompson appears in a scene shot in the third-class cabin. After colliding with an iceberg, they can’t get on board because the ship’s crew has closed the passages. So the family lies on their beds and waits for certain death. Then the five-year-old asks the actress playing his mother, “What are we doing, Mommy?” and hears in reply that they are waiting for the first-class people to board their lifeboats so that they can do the same. Thompson now admits he struggled with his Irish accent at the time, but he was paid £30,000 for his part in the production. dollars that he later spent on his education, upkeep and buying a car.
He said one sentence in Titanic. He’s been getting paid for it so far
Thompson, who now works as director of digital marketing at the Brian Head Resort in Utah, began his show business journey as a child model. His agent offered him in 1997 either a part in a gasoline commercial or a small role in “”. In an interview with ” the child actor recalls: “My mother thought we should do it because it would be fun – even if the movie sucked. Of course, we all know it was a massive success, so it certainly wasn’t a bad decision.” Aside from the fact that the five-year-old got a pretty impressive salary of $30,000 (“Kate Winslet, by comparison, reportedly got two million dollars, and Leonardo DiCaprio two and a half), to this day, royalties flow into his account once a quarter.
Not long after “Titanic” was released on VHS and DVD (in 1998 and 1999) Thompson received checks amounting to several thousand dollars, and in recent years these payments have ranged from 100 to 250-300 dollars. “It’s weird because now I don’t sit around wondering when the new check for Titanic will come. But when it does, it’s always a nice surprise, like an extra $100,” says Reece Thompson. “Titanic” made a billion dollars after its premiere, and in 2012, when it was re-released to celebrate the anniversary of the tragedy, the profits doubled.
Source: Gazeta
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