Nicolas Cage reveals why Christopher Nolan won’t work with him

Nicolas Cage claims Christopher Nolan and much A-list board won’t activity pinch him because he’s antecedently turned down their projects.

The actor, 62, worked pinch head David O. Russell for his upcoming film, “Madden” — successful which he plays legendary shot coach John Madden — and said Russell was nan only head who’s ever reached retired to activity pinch him again aft he’s said nary to a erstwhile movie of theirs.

Cage claimed 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 published Saturday. “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 claimed. “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.’ And we were going to do thing and it didn’t activity out.”

“Anyway, David did telephone me, and it showed a batch of people that he would telephone maine backmost and induce maine again, and I didn’t want to opportunity nary to him again because I person awesome respect for his talent,” he added.

Cage didn’t stock what movie of Russell’s he turned down, but noted it was “a cardinal years ago.”

“It was a bully movie, and he offered it and I said no, and he’s nan only head that I ever said nary to who really came backmost and offered maine different movie,” he said.

Page Six reached retired to Nolan’s rep for comment, but didn’t instantly person a response.

“Insomnia,” a psychological thriller pursuing 2 Los Angeles homicide detectives investigating a execution successful Alaska, was some critically acclaimed and a container agency hit, grossing complete $113 million worldwide.

Nolan is known for his star-studded casts, arsenic good arsenic moving aggregate times pinch nan aforesaid actors, including Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy and more.

Nolan, 55, precocious defended nan casting successful his highly anticipated “The Odyssey,” which comes retired connected July 17 — particularly, casting musician Travis Scott as a bard successful his adjustment of nan ancient Greek epic.

“I formed him because I wanted to motion towards nan thought that this communicative has been handed down arsenic oral poetry, which is analogous to rap,” Nolan explained to Time.