SHARON Horgan is set to star in Nicolas Cage’s movie The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

The 50-year-old actress will play the ex-wife of Cage’s character, who is a fictional version of himself who is facing financial ruin until he takes up an offer of $1 million to attend a super-fan’s birthday party.

Sharon Horgan is set to play Nicolas Cage’s character’s ex-wife in new film The Unbearable Weight of Massive TalentCredit: Getty Images – Getty

Cage will play a fictional version of himself in the new flickCredit: Getty Images – Getty
According to Deadline, the event goes seriously wrong and Horgan’s character will be drawn into the danger.

Pedro Pascal is to portray the role of Javi, a Mexican billionaire and Cage super-fan who has a script that he wants the actor to see.

However, he is also a drug lord and has kidnapped the daughter of a politician, and Cage is recruited by the CIA to gather intelligence on the criminal.

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The motion picture, which is set to begin production later this year, has been written by Kevin Etten and Tom Gormican, who will also direct.

It will feature 56-year-old Cage speaking to an ”egotistical 1990s version of himself who rides him for making too many crappy movies and for not being a star anymore”.

Meanwhile, Horgan previously  admitting: “They’re so angry their lives have been taken away from them.”

The writer and actor said: “It’s ok. I mean, it’s worse for other people. I’m aware of that. I’ve got two kids, so they’re constantly… here…”

“So my teenager’s 16 and she’s just so angry. I mean they’re so angry that their lives have been taken away from them.

“There’s like a whole ‘Linda Blair’ level of teenage anger in the house. Because we’re together all the time, she’s had to find new things to hate about me.

“The other day she got really angry with me because my eyes are too close together!”