Alicia Witt had a "rare out-of-body experience" while filming 'Longlegs'. The 48-year-old actress stars as the religious mother Ruth Parker in the new horror - which is set in 1970 and tells the story of a little girl with a Polaroid camera who follows a mysterious voice behind her house - and recalled that while shooting one particular scene with co-star Maika Monroe that she ended up in "some other realm". She told Collider: "That was one of the rare out-of-body experiences that I've had over the course of my life.
I had one with Melissa McBride on 'The Walking Dead' — it happened to both of us. I had one with Michael Rapaport in 'Justified 'in the finale scene. We were lost to the world.
I had one with Al Pacino where he had to slap me on the face during the camera rolling because I was having a panic attack "And I had one with Maika Monroe in that moment. We were in some other realm together. I was not expecting that.
It happened. The voice that came out of me wasn't mine. I remember looking at her from across the room as we went to our respective corners to get tidied up by the glam squad.
I think it was cold out that day, so we were bundled up, and we kind of looked at each other like, ‘What was that?’” Alicia also noted that there was another scene that she had "dreamt about" the night before she had even read the script and believes that she inspired it in part because she had shared a personal story with Oz Perkins beforehand. She said: "One scene in particul.
