When he was nine years old, actor Reece Thompson played the role of a third-class passenger.
Reece Thompson participated in the tapeTitanic when he was just 9 years old. The film directed by James Cameron, the child actor played to a little Irishman who travels in third class with his mother and sister and who dies in the shipwreck. Almost 25 years after the premiere of the film, the young man is still receiving an amount of money for his participation.
Nowadays, reece has 33 years, and in an interview with Business Insider revealed how much money he earns each month for that work, despite the fact that his participation is reduced to only three scenes and he barely utters a single line at the moment when the fatal chaos breaks out on the ocean liner.
Reece is the director of digital marketing for a ski and snowboard resort in Utah, United States. In addition, he said that his career began as a child model after signing a contract with a talent agent after winning a contest.
“It was one of the highest grossing movies in history, so it’s kind of weird to see it in hindsight.”, revealed Thompson. “My mom said, ‘Let’s do it. Will be great. Even if the movie is bad, we will see it,’” he recalled in the interview. When the film was shot, Reece collected a payment of 25 thousand dollars. The money was deposited in a bank account with the aim of spending it on his education, but also to buy a car.
For some time the young man received checks for several thousand dollars each quarter. However, with the passage of time that number began to be reduced to 100 and 300 dollars per month. “It’s funny, because this fact is no longer present in my mind. It’s not like all the time I’m thinking, ‘Oh, when am I going to get a new Titanic check? But when it happens, it’s like, ‘Great, $100 extra.’”said Reece.
Titanic is currently the third highest grossing film in history. after being barely surpassed by Avatar (2009) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).
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