While he’s playing a superhero in new the Prime Video series Spider-Noir, Nicolas Cage is also getting ready to reprise a very different role: serial killer Longlegs. https://t.co/feFJ9SL1T8
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) May 16, 2026
Nicolas Cage talked about the upcoming Longlegs film. “I guess you could say I have the pride of ownership of that character. That character is personal to me because I was influenced by my mom — not that my mom was crazy like that, she wasn’t satanic, but I don’t want someone else playing my mom, so if they’re gonna do it, you’re doing it with me.”
He talked about the character’s connection to his mother who suffered from schizophrenia in the past. “I was coming at it from, what exactly was it that drove my mother insane? It was a deeply personal kind of performance for me because I grew up trying to cope with what she was going through. She would talk in terms that were kind of poetry.”
