In the trailer for Longlegs, the audience receives only a split second of Nicolas Cage’s character on the screen. He also remained absent for most of the publicity tour for the highly anticipated serial killer horror film and was marked as not available for any interviews in the film’s international press junket.
One of Nicolas Cage’s co-stars, Alicia Witt, explained in an interview with Metro.co.uk that she “had no idea how scary it (Cage) was going to be. I mean, it was so scary that you need a new word to describe what he looks like!”. It’s also stated that the rest of the cast was kept shielded from what Nicolas Cage’s character, Longlegs, looked like.