Yet, Matt Damon turned down the chance to appear in a Sam Raimi-directed Western starring Gene Hackman and Russell Crowe. The young actor decided that The Quick and the Dead wasn't the career trajectory he wanted.
According to Slash Film, Tri-Star offered Damon $250,000 to appear in Raimi's Western, but he was not interested. "I want the kind of career Robert Duvall has. I don't feel [that] chasing movies like this is going to lead to a 40-year career. I'd rather be broke," Damon boldly claimed.
According to The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi, Sam Rockwell also auditioned for the role of The Kid. DiCaprio and Damon would later go on to star in Martin Scorsese's 2006 crime thriller The Departed together.
“This kid named Leonardo DiCaprio was the only one who nailed the audition, in my opinion: he was the only one who came in and cried, begging his father to love him as he died in the scene,” Sharon Stone wrote, per Perisphere. “The studio said if I wanted him so much, I could pay him out of my own salary. So I did.”
Sharon Stone on the set of The Quick and the Dead directed by Sam Raimi. (Photo by Murray Close/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)Despite Damon's reservations, The Quick and the Dead made $47.2 million on a $32 million budget. While it wasn't a massive hit at the time, it has become a cult classic, mainly thanks to its memorable final shootout.
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