The actor and director Osgood Perkins recently released his latest horror thriller, Longlegs, which some are calling the scariest movie of the year.
In a conversation with Q's Tom Power, the filmmaker explains what it was like working with the Academy Award winner. — when you're making a movie, there are things you can control and things you can't, and it's important to know which is which."I'm in control of the words: how they look and how they feel and how they move, and the rhythm of things in the narrative," he says.
"Unless they're your best friend or your cousin, or they owe you money, they're not going to be in your movie," he says. "It's just not going to happen. People say, 'I'll only do it if I can get Jude Law,' and it's a joke. It doesn't work that way.
Perkins says that, initially, he had the urge to just defer to Cage wherever possible, but when the actor gave his stamp of approval to the script, it gave him a major confidence boost."The first call I had with Nic, I said, 'You can throw out all of it,'" he says. "'You're Nicolas Cage, you probably know better than me. You don't have to say any of the things that I wrote.' He said, 'No, no no no no no no. I want to say everything that you wrote.
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