Actor Nicolas Cage says that his newest function as a disturbed serial killer oddly hit near dwelling.
The Oscar winner revealed Friday that he didn’t comb the darkest crevices of his thoughts to arrange for “Longlegs,” during which he performs a deadly occultist, however discovered the inspiration in his mom, who lived with schizophrenia and extreme despair till her loss of life in 2021.
“My mom put on Noxzema cold cream,” Cage advised Entertainment Weekly. “I was 2 years old, and I opened the bathroom door [to see] what she was doing. For no reason, she turned her face really fast and stared at me after [putting on] the cold cream.”
“The whiteness of the cold cream just really spooked me,” he defined.
“Longlegs,” the fourth movie from writer-director Oz Perkins, “centers on a series of old unsolved murders that resurface in the 1990s when FBI Agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) is tasked to nab the elusive killer — whose white complexion is the stuff of nightmares.
“He has a strange connection to the color white,” Cage advised Entertainment Weekly about discovering his character alongside Perkins. “I don’t really know what it is. He says it’s just a force he’s aware of. You don’t question it too much. He knows it when he sees it.”
Cage’s look has remained shrouded in thriller throughout advertising supplies for the movie. A not too long ago shared clip displaying Harker first assembly Longlegs, in the meantime, included audio of Monroe’s precise coronary heart fee, which skyrocketed when she noticed his face.
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Cage beforehand advised EW that his character is “a tragic entity … at the mercy of these voices that are talking to him.” His mom, Pleasure Vogelsang, reportedly struggled with comparable points for many of his youth — and even endured shock therapies throughout varied institutionalizations.
“I was coming at it from, what exactly was it that drove my mother insane?” Cage advised EW in June. “It was a deeply personal kind of performance for me because I grew up trying to cope with what she was going through. She would talk in terms that were kind of poetry.”
The actor not too long ago shared he’s “terrified” of changing into managed by the burgeoning use of synthetic intelligence, letting Hollywood inhabit his likeness with ease.
Horror followers, in the meantime, are rejoicing — as “Longlegs” sits at a ripe 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The movie hit theaters nationwide on Friday.
