Lola Tung says working on Osgood Perkins’ The Young People was a crazy, weird, awesome experience

Last year, it was announced that Lola Tung (The Summer I Turned Pretty) and Nico Parker (How to Train Your Dragon) were set to star in The Young People, the latest horror film from Longlegs and Keeper director Osgood Perkins. The project has since made its way through production, and Tung has told Variety that working on this movie was a crazy, weird, awesome experience.

Cast

Tung and Parker are joined in the cast of The Young People by Tatiana Maslany (The Monkey), Heather Graham (Suitable Flesh), Johnny Knoxville (Jackass), Lexi Minetree (The Paramedic Who Stalked Me), Lily Collias (Good One), Brendan Hines (Lie to Me), Cush Jumbo (The Good Wife), and Best Actress Oscar winner (for The Hours) Nicole Kidman!

Details on the characters have not been revealed. This project is being kept tightly under wraps.

The Old Ones

Perkins directed The Young People from his own script. When filming began, an image of the script shared online, and a glimpse of the top line of page 76 indicates that Perkins is entering Lovecraftian territory with this film, because there’s a reference to “The Old Ones.”

That’s all we have to go on, because the plot for The Young People is being kept secret.

Perkins and his producing partner Chris Ferguson launched their production banner Phobos with backing from Neon last year, signing a first-look deal with the company. Deadline reported that, “under the first-look deal, Neon will house films that Perkins writes and directs, as well as those he produces for other filmmakers. Neon will release the features theatrically in the U.S. and represent the international rights. Perkins will continue to work with producer Brian Kavanaugh-Jones of Range.” The Young People is part of that deal. Neon is co-financing the picture with Lyrical Media, with Perkins producing alongside Chris Ferguson and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones.

Perkins made his feature directorial debut with The Blackcoat’s Daughter in 2015 and got his second film, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, out into the world just one year later. There was a four year wait for his third film, Gretel & Hansel, and another four year wait for his fourth, Longlegs. Then he switched into maximum overdrive. The Monkey reached theatres just seven months after Longlegs, Keeper was released nine months later, and The Young People was already filming by then.

Lola Tung

Tung told Variety (with thanks to our friends at Bloody Disgusting for the transcription) that working on The Young People “was like a crazy, weird, awesome experience. … I got a little scared on set a couple times, actually, which has never really happened to me.” She confirmed that this is, like most of Perkins’ work, a straightforward horror movie rather than a horror comedy like The Monkey.

Tung also had praise for her co-stars: “Nicole [Kidman], I mean, obviously, what a force and icon. And Nico Parker and Lily Collias, I adore them so much. They’re incredible. We really bonded very, very fast. Which, again, it was so cool to have a cast of women that we just clicked very immediately. It was an insane cast.“

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