Overview
- Cage told The New York Times that when he declines projects many directors stop contacting him and that this has happened “a million times.”
- He said he turned down a role in Christopher Nolan’s 2002 film Insomnia and that Nolan stopped returning his calls after that decision.
- Cage named Woody Allen and Paul Thomas Anderson as other directors who, by his account, did not re-engage after he said no to earlier projects.
- He singled out David O. Russell as the one director who later offered him another movie and then cast him in the upcoming Madden biopic.
- The remarks were made during press for Spider-Noir and Madden and have been widely republished; none of the named directors has publicly confirmed or denied Cage’s account.