LONGLEGS Director Says Nicolas Cage's Creepy Look Was Inspired by Botched Plastic Surgery
The director of the upcoming horror thriller Longlegs continues to tease Nicolas Cage’s creepy look in the film. We have yet to get a proper look at Cage in the role, as they are saving the big reveal for those who see the movie.
One thing we do know about Cage’s look is that it’s going to be disturbing. The actor plays a sinister serial killer in the film the whole look of the character is meant to terrify.
Cage wears a white blonde wig and a face full of prosthetics for the role, and when talking about the actor stepping into the role, writer-director Oz Perkins shared some insight.
Perkins explained: "Early on in the development, Nic was really enthusiastic about burying himself, which I thought was awesome, because I don't think he's ever done that before."
When talking about the character’s disturbing look, the filmmaker said: "In the script, he's referred to as someone who's been ruined, ruined by life, ruined by living the life that he's had to live.
“A good shortcut into that for me wound up being, like, when you see someone who's had plastic surgery and you're like, 'Wow, you really f–ked that up, didn't you? Your whole thing? Everything that was you is now f–king ruined.' So that was elemental, that was the shorthand.”
"He continued: “You just start getting into it with makeup people, you're talking about what busted plastic surgery looks like. Then you just start building it, piece by piece, and you edit and like anything else, you shape it and you sculpt it and you throw things away and you try again."
Maika Monroe talked about seeing Cage for the first time in makeup, saying: "When I saw Nic as Longlegs for the first time; that [reaction] was incredibly genuine because I hadn't seen him before.
“Oz called action, I walked into the room, so that was all very real. I had an inkling [as to what he was going to look like] based off of some of my initial conversations with Oz, but it's one thing to read and hear about something versus it sitting two feet away from you."
You can watch her whole reaction to that here, which had her heartrate racing at 170 bpm. It looks like an incredibly intense and frightening scene.
In the story, “As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.”
Longlegs is said to be “in the vein of classic Hollywood psychological thrillers,” and early reviews have compared it to the classic ’90s thriller The Silence of the Lambs.
The movie will be released on July 12th, 2024.
Source: GamesRadar