Nicolas Cage said directors Christopher Nolan, Woody Allen, and Paul Thomas Anderson stopped offering him projects after he turned down roles. He said David O. Russell was the only director who returned with another offer after Cage declined an earlier movie. Cage described a pattern where directors take rejection personally and do not follow up. He said Nolan offered him a role in Insomnia in 2002. He said Anderson had shown him a short film and they planned to do something, but it did not happen. Cage stars in Russell’s forthcoming film Madden as John Madden, covering his Raiders career, broadcasting success, and role in creating the Madden NFL video game franchise.
"“David O Russell offered me a movie a million years ago,” Cage said on the New York Times podcast The Interview. “It was a good movie, and he offered it and I said no, and he's the only director that I ever said no to who actually came back and offered me another movie.”"
"“Most of them, they get their feelings hurt and don't call you back. It's happened a million times to me,” Cage (62) 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.”"
"He said Nolan offered him a role in the 2002 psychological thriller Insomnia, though he did not specify which character he had been considered for. The film, a remake of Erik Skjoldbjærg's 1997 Norwegian thriller of the same name, stars Al Pacino as homicide detective Will Dormer and Martin Donovan as his partner Hap Eckhart who are required to travel to the Alaskan town of Nightmute to investigate the murder of a 17-year-old girl."
"As for Anderson, Cage only described it as “a very early movie”. “He'd shown me a short film with Philip Baker Hall, and we were going to do something and it didn't work out,”"
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