Nicolas Cage confesses to turning down two iconic movie roles

Nicolas Cage turned down awesome roles successful nan 2002 “Spider-Man” movie and 1994 drama “Dumb and Dumber” — but has nary regrets.

In an interview pinch Variety published Thursday, Cage confessed that filmmaker Sami Raimi approached him to play supervillain Green Goblin successful nan blockbuster superhero movie.

“Sam and I had a awesome lunch, and I did opportunity during nan lunch, ‘Listen: whoever plays Spider-Man, fto them do 1 segment wherever they’re crawling astir for illustration a spider erstwhile they’re alone,’ and it didn’t happen,” nan actor, 62, recalled.

“He wanted maine to do nan Green Goblin,” Cage continued, referencing Willem Dafoe’s role.

The Oscar victor added, “I liked nan thought of Sam Raimi, because of ‘Evil Dead 1’ and ‘2,’ and I wanted to activity pinch him, but I had this different movie called ‘Adaptation.’” 

Cage said thing akin occurred erstwhile he was asked to prima alongside Jim Carrey successful nan cult drama classic.

He chose, instead, to attraction connected his movie “Leaving Las Vegas” — which snagged him nan 1996 Academy Award for Best Actor.

“Both those decisions were nan correct ones for me, and I’m happy pinch those results,” Cage insisted.

Jeff Daniels, notably, portrayed nan domiciled of Harry Dunne alongside Carrey successful “Dumb and Dumber.”

Earlier this month, Cage made headlines for revealing several A-list board won’t activity pinch him owed to him turning down their projects.

The Golden Globe victor claimed Christopher Nolan wouldn’t return his calls aft he passed connected 2002’s “Insomnia,” which starred Al Pacino and nan precocious Robin Williams.

“Most of them, they get their feelings wounded and don’t telephone you back,” he said in a Q&A pinch nan New York Times last week. “It’s happened a cardinal times to me.”

Aside from Nolan, Cage claimed Paul Thomas Anderson and Woody Allen are besides board that nary longer want to activity pinch him aft he turned down their projects.

“They don’t telephone maine back,” he said. “The Paul Thomas Anderson movie was a very early movie. He’d shown maine a short movie with Philip Baker Hall — who was successful ‘Hard Eight.’

“We were going to do thing and it didn’t activity out.”