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Osgood Perkins Gets Into the Family Business
He’s Dorky Dave from Legally Blonde. He’s also Norman Bates’s son and the next big horror-movie director.
Perkins just made a movie featuring a reigning scream queen, an iconic wild man, and enough sickening dread about evil seeping into the everyday to make it the fright phenomenon of the summer, but to some viewers, he’ll always be best known for that part in a chipper Reese Witherspoon rom-com. His memories of the experience are fuzzy, but he recalls being afraid to be there because “the set felt real to me … it was obviously scary.” That childhood gig was just for fun, a way to accompany his dad to work, but when he did drift into acting later, he appeared in small roles in Secretary and Not Another Teen Movie, with Legally Blonde being his peak. But it attracted attention from discerning genre fans for its cunningly fragmented timeline, which teased the nature of the relationship between a terrific Kiernan Shipka as a tormented schoolgirl and Emma Roberts, in a separate story thread, as an escapee from a mental hospital.
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