The actor and singer explains how starring alongside Nicolas Cage in the deeply unsettling new horror Longlegs helped her deal with a cancer diagnosis and the tragic death of her parents
– and not just Nicolas Cage in full serial killer makeup staying in character between takes – that surely it seeped into the deeply unsettling feel of the film. “Like clusters of birds, eagles, showing up in unexpected ways,” says Alicia Witt. “I’m getting shivers just talking about it. A truck would go by with the name of one of the characters.
Witt’s acting career – she is also a musician – has swung towards comedy and quirky drama, as well as an unusual number of Hallmark Christmas TV movies. There has been darker stuff, such as small roles in the TV series The Exorcist and The Walking Dead, but nothing like Longlegs. When Longlegs was filmed the following year, she says, “it felt as though something within me that needed to be released was released, and shall forevermore remain within these frames.” She doesn’t intend to watch it. She doesn’t love watching herself on film anyway. “But this one, it’s like a spiritual reason.” What does she fear might happen if she did? “It’s not fear, just a choice, a conviction. I have a certainty that it’s meant for others to view.
When Witt was 16 she moved to Los Angeles – her mother came for a while too – and supported herself while auditioning by playing piano at the Beverly Wilshire hotel. She must have seen big movie stars coming in and out – did she feel like the outsider? “Yeah,” she says. “It was odd because on a daily basis, people would approach me and assume my aspiration was to be a musician.
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