Maika Monroe Interview: Making Longlegs & It Follows 2 Details

I hope you’re ready for a one-two punch of horror icons on Collider Ladies Night. Last week we put the spotlight on Mia Goth for the release of MaXXXine, and now we’ve got Longlegs headliner Maika Monroe who is, hands down, one of the most exciting voices in the horror space right now — and has been for a decade.

It Follows completely changed the game for Monroe in 2014. The David Robert Mitchell-written and directed film featured a brilliant concept that was expertly executed, putting the project on the path to becoming a modern horror classic. That wasn’t the only 2014 release Monroe had that earned such high honors. She also starred in Simon Barrett and Adam Wingard’s The Guest, yet another beloved film festival gem that went on to be hailed as top-tier horror by the masses. And Monroe has not stopped excelling in the genre since. She consistently works with directing visionaries with bold and ambitious ideas, ideas that give Monroe opportunities to push boundaries in horror storytelling and challenge herself as an actor in that space. Not only is her latest in that department a big winner in every respect on screen, but the quality of the work seems to be paying off significantly. Longlegs is already setting records for its distributor, Neon, and is poised to take in $14 - $17 million for its debut weekend.

Monroe leads Longlegs as Lee Harker, a new FBI agent who finds herself working on an especially gruesome case. Given her unusually adept perception, FBI veteran Agent Carter (Blair Underwood) recruits Lee to help him track down a serial killer with ties to the occult. 

In celebration of Longlegs’ nationwide release, Monroe swung by for a Collider Ladies Night interview to dig into how she carved out the perfect place for herself in Hollywood.

00:00 Dicey Questions
05:54 Introduction
07:10 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
08:54 Leaving Kiteboarding for Acting
10:20 Acting Advice
12:54 It Follows
15:50 Independence Day: Resurgence & The 5th Wave
19:09 Nick Robinson & Nicolas Cage
21:08 Music & Prep Process
22:20 Acting Coach
24:38 Finding Her Voice on Set & Producing
27:04 Horror Directors
27:58 Oz Perkins
28:46 Self Care While Making Horror Movies
30:20 Longlegs
41:54 They Follow
45:23 What’s Maika Most Proud Of?

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