Nicolas Cage Says Christopher Nolan Won’t “Call Me Back” After Turning Down ‘Insomnia’: “They Get Their Feelings Hurt”

As Nicolas Cage makes his Spider-Verse debut, don’t expect the veteran actor to swing into a Christopher Nolan movie anytime soon.

The Oscar-winning actor claimed that The Odyssey writer/director doesn’t “call me back” after Cage turned down a role in Nolan’s 2002 movie Insomnia, noting that many directors “get their feelings hurt” when he turns them down.

“David O. Russell offered me a movie a million years ago,” he told The New York Times. “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.

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