Between its wave of important acclaim, the presence of considered one of Hollywood’s most intriguing A-list actors and even its personal alphabet to decode, there’s loads to sink your tooth into relating to the brand new horror film Longlegs.
Nicolas Cage underwent one other of his trademark transformations to play the titular serial killer, donning elaborate facial prosthetics to make him utterly unrecognisable within the position.
And all of that work pays off, with the Oscar winner completely disappearing into the character of Longlegs, whose picture is totally obscured from all the movie’s promotional materials and is definitely solely revealed totally throughout the film because the motion unfolds.
The query is – how precisely did the group choose Longlegs’ bodily look
According to Polygon, director Osman Goode had a “glam rock vibe in his head” when placing collectively the character, earlier than deciding the character ought to look as if he’s had a number of botched facial surgical procedures.
“His jam is really that he’s trying to make himself beautiful for the devil,” particular results make-up artist Harlow MacFarlane defined. “He’s in love with the Devil, and he’s trying to impress the Devil, so he’s gone through all these plastic surgery botch jobs to make himself look as pretty as he can for the Devil.
“Every thing he does is for this evil force that he’s trying to impress.”
Harlow added that the prosthetics had been created with the concept that Longlegs would have undergone facial work with a “hack job of a doctor in a strip mall somewhere”.
In a separate interview with Deadline, Oz made it clear that he needed Longlegs to come back throughout as a “shitty person who’s been through the wringer”.
“It’s not interesting to have someone who’s worked for the devil be like, ‘Ooh, man, you know what I love? Working for the devil’,” the filmmaker insisted. “I think it’s more like, ‘Man, I’ve been working for the devil, and sometimes it’s really hot, and sometimes I really get off on it, and sometimes it’s a fucking drag’. Like life, right?
“Like sometimes it’s really too much, and he’s thinking, ‘I’ve lost the colour in my hair, and I ruined myself with plastic surgery, and I’m fucking sad, and I’m just trying to be nice to this little girl at a hardware store, and she thinks I’m a fucking creep, because I am a creep, and I’m gross, and I’m lonely, and I’m sad, and I’m the monster, but I’m also lonely and sad’.”
Meanwhile, Oz just lately lifted the lid on one other of the movie’s greatest mysteries – how he got here to land on Longlegs’ distinctive moniker.
Longlegs is in cinemas now.
