Titanic’s little boy still gets royalty cheques for his one-line dialogue
25 years after the film Titanic was released, the boy who has a memorable one-line role in the iconic film is still receiving royalty cheques for his role.
Reece Thompson who is now in his 30s says that cheques were regularly coming to him for his one-line role. The film has been released several times in theatres including in a 3-D version and has proved to be one of the most profitable films ever made. Reece says that he was getting his cheques till some years ago when he moved home but never forwarded his new address to the production house. He hasn’t seen his cheques since then, but he assumes that they are still coming.
Thompson played the role of a third-class Irish passenger who asks his mother as their cabin fills up with water – “Where are we going, Mommy?” The gates outside are closed as the guards have been told that only the first-class passengers will be evacuated first. The heartbreaking scene is made even more poignant by his mother’s reply who tells him stoically, “We’re just waiting, dear. When they finish putting first-class people in the boats, they’ll be starting with us, and we’ll want to be ready, right?”
That scene is one of the few scenes that one recalls from the film, even 25 years later. Reece, who is now a digital marketing director in Utah in the USA, was speaking to a TV channel in Australia and told them that it was something that he and his wife often talk about. Many people still associate him with that powerful and emotional scene that moved millions so many years ago.
