Nicolas Cage Says 'Longlegs' Serial Killer Performance Was Inspired By His Mother
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The actor's mother, Joy Vogelsang, lived with schizophrenia and severe depression until her death in 2021.
Actor Nicolas Cage says that his latest role as a disturbed serial killer oddly hit close to home.
The Oscar winner revealed Friday that he didn’t comb the darkest crevices of his mind to prepare for “Longlegs,” in which he plays a lethal occultist, but found the inspiration in his mother, who lived with schizophrenia and severe depression until her death in 2021.
“My mom put on Noxzema cold cream,” Cage told 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 explained.
“Longlegs,” the fourth film 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.
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