Justin Long; Kate Bosworth.Photo: Dominik Bindl/Getty Images; Vivien Killilea/Getty Images
Justin LongandKate Bosworthhave a newHalloweentradition.
“We’ve been doing a horror movie every night for October, leading up to Halloween,” Long, 44, tells PEOPLE. “So we’ve doneDon’t Look NowandThe Exorcistand classics.”
In fact, the couple, who werefirst linked in Marchbeforegoing Instagram officialin May, have been relying on movie picks from theirBarbariandirectorZach Cregger. (Bosworth, 39, has a small but memorable cameo in the film, which is now available to stream on HBO Max.)
“We love what Zach did with this movie and his taste,” explains Long. “And so we are now really trusting his taste in horror movies. He tweeted a list of movies, so we’ve seenSaint MaudandAudition, a bunch of movies that were on his list …The Evil Dead. Tonight isNightmare on Elm Street!”
Long even admits to watching his own 2009 horror filmDrag Me to Hellwith Bosworth — whom he also recently starred with in Neil LaBute’s thrillerHouse of Darkness.
“We just love horror,” he says. “It’s really limitless, what you can do with that genre. I think that’s what we really have been enjoying about it.”
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“Yeah, I just saw that,” he confesses. “It’s so flattering. I just watchedHalloween Endsand there’s no more legendary a scream queen thanJamie Lee Curtis. To be up in that category is very flattering.”
“As an audience member, I love horror movies,” the actor adds. “So maybe subconsciously I gravitate toward them because of that.”
In the case ofBarbarian, Long tells PEOPLE it all came down to how his character, an actor facing serious allegations, was written.
“It was exciting,” he says. “It was a real opportunity to play somebody pretty despicable and who was very flawed. And to find the humanity in that person, without justifying what they’ve done. That that person exists in the world, and that person has ways of justifying their behavior and ways of living with themselves.”
Long adds, “I thought it was really smart, enlightened writing. I think it’s important to be able to identify those people in life, but also in our art, I guess.”
Barbarianis now available to stream on HBO Max and to rent and purchase on digital.
source: people.com
