Nicolas Cage regrets turning down Christopher Nolan feature
Nicolas Cage has starred in enough wild movies to fill several alternate universes, but apparently there’s image one Hollywood “what if” living
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Nicolas Cage regrets turning down Christopher Nolan feature
Nicolas Cage has starred in enough wild movies to fill several alternate universes, but apparently there’s image one Hollywood “what if” living rent-free in his head: turning down Christopher Nolan.
In a candid new content conversation with the New York Times ahead of the launch of Spider-Noir , Cage admitted he thinks declining roles from major directors may have quietly closed some doors over the years – including one with Nolan after passing on 2002 suspense Insomnia.
“Most of them, they get their feelings hurt and don’t call you back,” Cage said. “It’s happened with Christopher Nolan, it’s happened with Woody Allen, it’s happened with Paul Thomas Anderson. They don’t call me back.”
That’s probably the most Nicolas Cage sentence ever spoken: casually name-dropping elite directors approval exes who left him on read.
Cage did not reveal exactly why he turned Insomnia down, but admitted one cinematist did surprise him by giving him another frame: David O. Russell.
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