Titanic: This actor only has one line in the movie and 26 years later he’s still making money!

Even if it only appears on screen for a few seconds during the entire Titanic, everyone in the audience remembers!

In the credits of the film, as a “little Irish boy”, we can see him climb aboard the giant liner and then try to get to the upper deck with his mother during the sinking. The latter, in a truly moving sequence, then made the terrible decision to fall asleep before the waves washed over them.

This anonymous but unforgettable character, with one and only one line in the entire film, was played by Rhys Thompson, who was only 5 years old at the time. Now 30 years old and now working as the marketing director of a ski resort in Utah (a far cry from the acting profession he abandoned at age 15), he recalled his Titanic memories on the microphone. Cosmopolitan magazine In 2017, in particular, he mentioned the royalty, which he continued:

“I still get them from time to time, but they’re not as important as when the movie comes out.”He confided, before detailing how much money the James Cameron film made him:

“A lot. Much of that money was used over the years to pay for college, cars, and other necessities. I’d say it was about $30,000.”

If Rhys Thompson continues to make money long after Titanic’s release, it’s for a very specific reason. As he explained in the interview, the moment an actor utters a word in a film, he has to get a royalty. However, at the time of the sinking of the liner, we heard the following short answer from a little Irish boy: “What are we doing, Mom?”

It’s enough to ensure his interpreter’s income for a very long time, especially considering the colossal triumph of the feature film, the biggest success of all time, when it was released in 1997.

Always at the microphone CosmopolitanRhys Johnson also recounted the famous scene where his mother tucks him into bed before the disaster:

“At first they really wanted to fill the room with water, but I couldn’t swim. I don’t know what exactly they were going to do, but I remember they specifically asked me if I could swim. And I was like, “If I have arms, I can swim.”

At the beginning of his film, James Cameron paid a small tribute to the dogs that died in the sinking of the Titanic, did you notice?

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