For years we believed Matt Damon missed out on hundreds of millions of dollars by passing on Avatar...but director James Cameron has something to say about it! Plus - nobody wants to lose a tooth two days before Christmas, sorry Chrissy...
☕ We uncover a possible reason for the Beckham insta unfollow
☕ James Cameron disputes one of the great Hollywood tales
☕ Chrissy Teigen needs an emergency trip to the dentist
☕ The stars of Emily in Paris prove their love extends beyond the screen
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Episode Transcript
You're listening to Amma Mia podcast. Good Morning Angels. Demara's
Treasure here jumping onto your morning tea, supplying the voice
(00:28):
of Ash London, who has received the early Christmas present
of laryngitis. Her fingers have been whirling and tapping up
a storm across the entire Internet to bring you all
the biggest entertainment stories from around the globe today. James
Cameron pretty much calls Matt Damon a liar, Chrissy Teagan
does herself a mischief just before Christmas, and the stars
of Emily and Paris Show is just how close they
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are in real life. So we chatted on yesterday's show
about the fact that Brooklyn Beckham has blockt his siblings
and parents on Instagram, and now it seems like we
know the reason. It all started with some spon con
Brooklyn uploading a video about cooking a Christmas chicken while
advertising a white tea. Right, so it has been beer
(01:09):
brining for the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I'm just finishing putting some Rosemarie butter around.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
But yeah, I mean the Holidays is basically an excuse
to dress up all she all smart. So I'm where
my favorite express look really cozy bottoms, my plastic.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
White T shirt from Express, which is the best white
T shirt because it's heavyweight, you really feel that quality.
And of course a flannel.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So I'll see you guys when it's done.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Right, this beautiful chicken.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
We'll see you guys in around forty five minutes to
an hour. Well, Victoria simply liked the post, right, She's
proud of us on making those dollars, But the liking
spawned a flurry of comments from fans urging them to reconcile.
The comments obviously proved too much and before they knew it,
boom locked. For years, we've been hearing the anecdote about
(01:59):
the hundreds of millions of dollars Matt Damon missed out
on by turning down the lead role in Avatar, which
eventually went to Sam Worthington. Matt's told it a couple.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Of times I turned down, and I will go down
in history as the person because Jim Cameron called me.
He offered me ten percent of Avatar. You will never
meet an actor who turned down more money than me. So,
but I was in the middle of shooting the Bourne
Ultimatum and he wanted to shoot during our post production,
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and we always needed more work in our post production,
and I needed to be around. I needed to be
available to do more work in our post production. He
was really lovely and he said, you know if you don't,
because this movie doesn't need you, It doesn't need a
movie star at all. He goes, the movie's the star,
the idea is the star, and it's going to work.
But if you do it, I'll give you ten percent
(02:48):
of the movie.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Well. Update, James Cameron is now sensationally claiming it never
bloody happened, instead claiming an initial discussion was hat but
it was very clear, very early on, there was a
scheduling conflict. Though it's true the pair have discussed the
blockbucks to hit, The Titanic director wanted to make it
clear that Matt's involvement was never a done deal, adding
(03:11):
there never was a deal. We never talked about the character.
We never got to that level. It was simply an
availability issue. I'm choosing to believe Matt's version of events
because they're far more dramatic. Stick around the Christmas injury
no one saw coming for Chrissy Teagan and our favorite
Emily in Paris, characters dish the dirt on just how
close they are. Irl, Let's get back into it. Christmas
(03:34):
can be a minefield for personal injuries, indigestion from too
much turkey, a headache from too many shampoos, perhaps an
electrocution from dodgy Christmas lights. But Chrissy Teagan has thrown
a new one into the mix. She was planting candy
canes in pots with her kids and decided to have
a chomp on one, which resulted in an emergency trip
(03:55):
to the dentist. When you fell off.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
From Venier, I have the whole piece business. Let mombs
deal for their kids so you can. I you grew.
I'm clearly ky.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I was trying to create magic now I have not.
The best part was her having to attend her kid's
Christmas school performance, missing her front tooth. Stuff of nightmares
for every month. First of all, we're all loving having you,
Emily and Paris to enjoy just before Christmas, and in
a recently published interview, lead star Lily Collins has revealed
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just how close her and her co star Ashley Park are,
with Lily revealing that Ashley sang at her twenty twenty
one wedding, adding that her voice was absolutely stunning. It
was for a really meaningful part of the ceremony, as
she told the outlet in a separate interview, and that
was probably the most nervous and honored I've ever been.
Lily has since gone on to become a mother to
daughter Tove, who is now eleven months old. That's your
(04:54):
morning tea for this morning, Spillers. Hopefully we'll have a
Christmas miracle on our hands tomorrow with a miraculous return
of Ash's voice. In the meantime, make sure you follow
this fill podcast on Instagram and TikTok to stay up
to date with all the latest entertainment, and we'll be
back in the morning. Mamma Mia acknowledges the traditional owners
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Gadigal people of the Oronation. We pay our respects to
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