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Longlegs Star Kiernan Shipka Reacts to Seeing Nicolas Cage's 'Fearless' Performance: 'Obsessed'

‘The Last Showgirl’ star Kiernan Shipka, at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 6, is recalling Nicolas Cage’s “amazing performance” in Osgood Perkins' serial killer thriller ‘Longlegs’: “I went to the theater and saw it and was so obsessed with it," she tells PEOPLE.

The Mad Men actress told PEOPLE she “didn’t even see him” during her time filming as Carrie Anne Camera, one of Longlegs’ targets interviewed by Maika Monroe ’s FBI agent Lee Harker. Costarring in Twisters with Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell, she said, “I made some of my best friends on that movie and it was an amazing experience.” It’s been “surreal,” she added, “to see both of those things translate and to have people watch them and dig it.” And in addition to the upcoming Red One(in theaters Nov. 15), she stars alongside Pamela Anderson in The Last Showgirl, which premiered in Toronto on Sept. 6.

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