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“You open it up and he just startsgoing?

He’s intensely prepared.

Nicolas Cage in Longlegs

He has read everything.

He’s seen every movie that you could ever want to reference.

He knows everybody’s name,” Perkins continues.

Longlegs

“He knows every performance, he can quote every song.

He likes all the same things you do.

He’s in complete control of his instrument.

Nicolas Cage as Longlegs in Longlegs/Osgood Perkins and Nicolas Cage standing side-by-side at a Longlegs event

It was a privilege.

What can I say?”

“It’s like having a racehorse in your movie, Perkins adds.

The Monkey

You’re just positioning little things here and there, every once in a while.

He’s like a cello or a harp, or a saxophone.”

The performance, the decibels: I love when those kinds of little Nic Cage-esque moments peak out.

The Surfer

It’s really gratifying, having been such a huge fan of his for so long."

Robert Eggers and Martin Scorsese side-by-side

Jack O�Connell and Hailee Steinfeld as Remmick and Mary in Sinners

Kaitlyn Santa Juana as Stefanie in Final Destination Bloodlines

Julia Garner in Weapons

A still from a Weapons teaser

Sarah Michelle Gellar as Helen Shivers waving in I Know What You Did Last Summer

Keir Dullea in 2001: A Space Odyssey

Sinners movie

Road House

Thor shirt

Sung Jinwoo in Solo Leveling season 2 arise from the shadow

Game of Thrones season 8

Baldur�s Gate 3

Thunderbolts

Articulate box, cards, board, and tokens on a wooden table

The cast of Thunderbolts standing in an elevator during the trailer for the upcoming Marvel Phase 5 movie.

Logan Kim as Hershel and Lauren Cohan as Maggie in The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2