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Will Smith REJECTED Christopher Nolan’s Inception Because He Did NOT Understand Its Plot; He Reveals More After 15 Years

Wil Smith could be playing Cobb in Inception instead of Lionardo DiCaprio, if he hadn’t rejected the role. Now, 15 years after the movie went on to become a Hollywood classic by Christopher Nolan, Smith has made the revelation leaving fans divided.

As reported by Variety, during a recent interview with radio station Kiss Xtra (via HuffPost), Smith shared that he turned down the lead role of in Inception because he didn’t understand the plot.

“I don’t think I’ve ever said it publicly but I am going to say it because we are opening up to one another. Chris Nolan brought me ‘Inception’ first and I didn’t get it. I’ve never said that out loud. Now that I think about it, it’s those movies that go into those alternate realities… they don’t pitch well. But I am hurt by those, too,” Smith shared.

He agreed that the cerebral action thriller today remains among the list of movies, also including The Matrix and Django Unchained, which he refused to do. “It hurts too bad to talk about,” Smith reacted over how The Matrix went on to become a career high for Keanu Reeves.

Smith rejecting Inception (2010), was first revealed by The Hollywood Reporter after it was declared a worldwide blockbuster earning $839 million globally. The report stated that things did not fall into place with Nolan’s first choice Brad Pitt, Smith got the offer. DiCaprio was the third option who ultimately signed it, and got the one of the biggest movies of his career.

Will Smith refused to do other classics

Infact even regarding Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, which starred Jamie Foxx, Smith told GQ magazine that he “didn’t want to make a slavery film about vengeance.”

“It was about the creative direction of the story. To me, it’s as perfect a story as you could ever want: a guy that learns how to kill to retrieve his wife that has been taken as a slave. That idea is perfect. And it was just that Quentin and I couldn’t see [eye to eye]. I wanted to make that movie so badly, but I felt the only way was, it had to be a love story, not a vengeance story,” he told The Hollywood Reported in a previous interview.

The Matrix could’ve starred him

In a YouTube video dated 2019, Smith explaining his reason to refuse The Matrix too. Directed by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, the movie kicked off its franchise in 1999.

Stating that he did not connect to the Wachowski siblings’ pitch, the actor shared, “We’re thinking like… imagine you’re in a fight. You, like, jump. Imagine if you could stop jumping in the middle of the jump. But then, people could see around you 360 degrees while you stop jumping. We’re going to invent these cameras and then people can see the whole jump when you stop in the middle of the jump.”

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