Osgood perkins son of anthony perkins
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But at the same time, even without being told what was happening, he knew that something in the household was unusual.
That tension between what was said and wasn’t said has informed his films since, including Longlegs.
“I’m the kid in the house, so I know everything, right?” Perkins explained. We had a real shorthand, very easy, on a lot of that stuff.
Osgood made his screen debut playing his father’s character as a child in Psycho II (1983). My father was a gay man who was closeted, and in the world that we lived in, it wasn’t acceptable. He’s currently at work on his next movie, The Young People, coming in 2026.
Osgood married his wife, Sidney Perkins, in 1999.
We blew up some balloons.
As Osgood Perkins told IndieWire in a recent interview, “Longlegs” is his most personal film yet.
Osgood Perkins on Femininity in Silence of the Lambs and Longlegs
A minor spoiler about Longlegs: Late in the story, FBI agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe), who is hunting the serial killer Longlegs (Nicolas Cage), Lee discovers that her mother (Alicia Witt) has been keeping a secret.
Longlegs uses Silence of the Lambs as a reference point, and in that 1991 masterpiece, underestimated FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) discovers late in the film that serial killer Buffalo Bill (spoiler, but have you seriously not seen Silence of the Lambs?) is making a suit out of his female victims.
And it still isn’t, as insane as that is. You can learn more about the Chilliwack Independent Film Festival, including another Osgood Perkins’ event today, here.
Main image: Nicolas Cage as Longlegs. We dressed them in period clothes.
“It was this whole thing about, ‘Tony Perkins is scared of women,'” Osgood Perkins recalled.
“It became a natural extension of the references we were working with, the fact that I wanted to invite the audience in by saying, ‘It’s like “Silence of the Lambs!” You know!'”
Perkins also said “Longlegs” was originally “written as 1992, and then I realized that if it was 1992, all the presidential photographs would be of George Bush, so I just tweaked it up by a year so it would at least be Bill Clinton.
They were sort of tightly packed in the early ’90s, and it was exactly the time I was absorbing movies as a teenager, 16, 17, 18, in that realm of it’s all pouring in, and you’re lucky to have something as exquisite as those movies — in your movie theater — and you don’t know anything about them, and you’re just overwhelmed by them,” he said.
He’s played by Nicolas Cage in bulbous prosthetics and ghoulish face powder that make Pennywise look like a children’s birthday clown.
There was the stylish dark academia giallo “The Blackcoat’s Daughter” in 2015, followed by “I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House” for Netflix and the Brothers Grimm adaptation “Gretel & Hansel.” His latest film, his first of three set up at Neon, is “Longlegs,” starring “It Follows” scream queen Maika Monroe as a tortured FBI agent on the trail of a Satan-worshipping serial killer.
“We worked on the voice and the mannerisms and all that together. I think I’m OK with that.” Perkins’ next movie is the Stephen King adaptation “The Monkey” along with another movie set up at Neon he’s not ready to discuss.
“Longlegs” oozes the forbidden feeling of looking at a crime scene photo, something sensationally awful you’re not supposed to see, but can’t look away from anyway.
Following furtive relationships with fellow actor Tab Hunter and dancer Grover Dale, Perkins married photographer Berry Berenson, the younger sister of model and actress Marisa Berenson, in 1973. It was always impressive.