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Scream Queen Maika Monroe Returns: The ‘Longlegs’ Star on Facing Off With Nicolas Cage and How She Leaves the Darkness on Set
Maika Monroe is in pursuit of a serial killer in "Longlegs."
The actress made a splash in 2014, at age 21, after years of bit parts in film and TV, by landing the lead in “It Follows,” about a young woman avoiding a sexually transmitted supernatural curse. Born to a father in construction and a mother who was a sign language interpreter for a Santa Barbara school, she first found herself on a movie set in a roundabout way — she was plucked at 13 from her dance class to be an extra in the 2006 slasher “Bad Blood.” That led to an interest in acting, yet her auditions amounted to very little. Though she landed parts in two big-budget 2016 tentpoles — “Independence Day: Resurgence” and dystopian teen drama “The 5th Wave” — neither featured characters as complex as those she’d played in indie horror films.
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