{"id":253858,"date":"2026-07-26T19:04:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/26\/will-smith-turned-down-inception\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T19:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:04:59","slug":"will-smith-turned-down-inception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/26\/will-smith-turned-down-inception\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith turned down Inception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Will Smith reveals Christopher Nolan offered him Inception first and he turned it down because he didn\u2019t get it<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever even said it publicly before, and I\u2019m gonna say it now because we\u2019re opening up to one another\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChris Nolan brought me Inception first, and\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lnfhIXMYFl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/lnfhIXMYFl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Third (@thirdmetax) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thirdmetax\/status\/2080485699770286334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 24, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Will Smith revealed he turned down the chance to star in Inception because he didn\u2019t understand it. <\/p>\n<p>He famously turned down The Matrix for similar reasons; \u201cIt\u2019s those movies that go into those alternate realities, they don\u2019t pitch well. But I\u2019m hurt by those two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thirdmetax\/status\/2080485699770286334?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132644278.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Smith reveals Christopher Nolan offered him Inception first and he turned it down because he didn\u2019t get it \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever even said it publicly before, and I\u2019m gonna say it now because we\u2019re opening up to one another\u201d \u201cChris Nolan brought me Inception first, and\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/lnfhIXMYFl \u2014 Third (@thirdmetax) July 24, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-253858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}