Man who played an Irish boy in Titanic reveals he stopped cashing the cheques years ago

"I'm just assuming they are still coming."

A man who had a fleeting but memorable role in Titanic as a child has revealed that he still gets paid for his appearance, but has not cashed in any of the cheques recently because of a change of address. Reece Thompson was five-years-old when he played the role of an Irish passenger on the ill-fated ship in James Cameron’s 1997 epic. We do not see much of Thompson in the movie, but he is part of one of its most heartbreaking scenes and one that you probably remember if you’ve seen it. As third-class passengers, Thompson’s character’s family are unable to get on a lifeboat and the last we see of them is him, his sister and his mother lying in their cabin waiting to die. Thompson does get a line in the film, when he asks his mother: “What are we doing mummy?” She responds: “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?”

"It feels like a dream it was so long ago."

More than 25 years later, Thompson has revealed that he still receives royalty cheques for his appearance but that he has stopped cashing them in recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RcVzevWX4U Speaking to Australia’s Studio 10, he said: “Yeah, I still do [receive royalty cheques], it’s true. “But I haven’t updated my address in several years, honestly since the last time I got interviewed for this. “So, I haven’t seen them [the cheques] in a few years so I’m just assuming that they are still coming.” He now works as a digital marketing director in Utah, but he still gets asked about his Titanic role, something he said he finds “interesting.” “My wife and I mostly just get a kick out of the comments," he explained.