Nicolas Cage has revealed that he turned down a role in Tom Gormican’s The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent three or four times.
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is based on the premise that Cage begrudgingly accepts a $1m (£764,895) offer to attend the birthday of a billionaire super fan.
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is scheduled to premiere at the South by Southwest film festival on 12 March, followed by a wide release in the US on 22 April.
“It was a sequence where the Nick Cage character goes into a series of vignettes that are all stylised in the German expressionism of The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari.”