‘Longlegs’ cast on working with Nicolas Cage: “That was a visceral experience I’ll never forget”

The cast of Longlegs have spoken about working with Nicolas Cage.

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The actor recently starred as the film’s titular serial killer, with Maika Monroe acting opposite him as the FBI Agent tasked with hunting him down. Twin Peaks‘ Alicia Witt also stars as Monroe’s mother in the film.

Speaking to Metro, Witt said of working with Cage: “I had no idea how scary it was going to be. I mean, it was so scary that you need a new word to describe what he looks like!”

“It’s so twisted and certainly helped with my work because my interaction with him in the movie, all you have to do is look at him and you know that man’s not right – like, deeply not right.”

Monroe concurred, with the actress explaining: “When I walked in and saw Nicolas Cage for the first time as Longlegs, that was a visceral experience I’ll never forget.”

The film recently posted a video of the first time Monroe saw Cage in costume for the first time, with her heart rate reportedly rising to 170bpm – watch the moment below:

The first time Maika Monroe saw Nicolas Cage as Longlegs, her heart rate hit 170 bpm.

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NME reviewed Longlegs upon release, giving it four stars: “At its heart, Monroe is superb as Harker, offering up a buttoned-down performance that never breaks. Hopefully, Longlegs doesn’t get her pigeonholed as a Scream Queen; she deserves more. As for Cage, also a producer here, it’s just another worthy addition to his canon of crazies.

“Despite limited screentime, it might just be his most bonkers role yet. “Is it scary being a lady FBI agent?” asks one little girl of Harker. Well, when you’re confronted with Cage’s Longlegs, it most certainly is.”

Meanwhile, Cage has spoken about how channeling his mother for his role as Longlegs was “constructive”, “Not that she was satanic,” he clarified, “but her vocalisations, the way she would move.”

“She would talk, like, ‘Oooh, Nicky, you looked just like a little bird when you were born’,” he continued. “And that was just scary. I think my mom did as well as she could with the situation in which she was contending with, but it was still scary. So I thought, O.K., I want to make this character as a sort of homage to my mother.”

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