Nicolas Cage Says Christopher Nolan Won't 'Call Me Back' After Turning Down Insomnia Role

Nicolas Cage has said that The Odyssey manager Christopher Nolan is connected the database of filmmakers who "don't telephone maine back" aft helium turned him down for a movie.

The National Treasure and Longlegs histrion spilled the beans connected his rocky narration with immoderate of the biggest names successful Hollywood during an interrogation with The New York Times. The speech came astir aft helium admitted to antecedently telling American Hustle manager David O. Russell "no" erstwhile helium offered him a "good movie" a "million years ago."

Cage is present acceptable to prima successful Russell's upcoming Madden biopic, but the histrion said he's not utilized to filmmakers calling him backmost aft he's turned them down. In fact, Russell is the lone 1 who gave him a 2nd chance.

Nicolas Cage. Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images.

"Most of them, they get their feelings wounded and don't telephone you back. It's happened a cardinal times to me. It's happened with Christopher Nolan, it's happened with Woody Allen, it's happened with Paul Thomas Anderson. They don’t telephone maine back."

Of Nolan's filmography, it was Insomnia that Cage decided to walk on. For Anderson, who conscionable walked distant with Best Picture and Director awards for One Battle After Another astatine the 98th Academy Awards, the histrion lone said that it was a "very early" project.

"He’d shown maine a abbreviated movie with Philip Baker Hall – and we were going to bash thing and it didn’t enactment out," helium added.

Cage gave Russell props for keeping him successful caput for Madden, saying that it "showed a batch of class." That movie is present acceptable to premiere this Thanksgiving.

"Anyway, David did telephone me," Cage continued, "and it showed a batch of people that helium would telephone maine backmost and invitation maine again, and I didn’t privation to accidental nary to him again due to the fact that I person large respect for his talent. And it was a beauteous experience. I enjoyed moving with David."

Cage is besides acceptable to prima successful Prime Video's upcoming live-action superhero bid Spider-Noir. That task volition plaything successful this week and sees the histrion play a relation that helium said is "70 percent Humphrey Bogart, and 30 percent Bugs Bunny."

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