{"id":1807,"date":"2025-10-31T16:08:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/?p=541559"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"the-insane-family-tree-of-legally-blondes-dorky-david-and-his-epic-new-job-you-will-recognise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2025\/10\/31\/the-insane-family-tree-of-legally-blondes-dorky-david-and-his-epic-new-job-you-will-recognise\/","title":{"rendered":"The insane family tree of Legally Blonde\u2019s Dorky David, and his epic new job you will recognise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember Dorky David from Legally Blonde? Well, he might have out-nepo-babied the likes of Lily-Rose Depp, Dakota Johnson, Zo\u00eb Kravitz, and even Kate Hudson.<\/p>\n

Osgood Perkins<\/a> was the actor who played Dorky David Kidney in Legally Blonde alongside Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Coolidge, and Selma Blair. He was the quintessential nerd type, whom Elle Woods helped by pretending they were romantically involved. Outside of Legally Blonde, he also starred in Nope, Not Another Teen Movie, Six Degrees of Separation, Electric Slide, and a few other projects in minor roles.<\/p>\n

It was only thanks to a recent viral TikTok that I learned Osgood Perkins’ insane ancestry, and how he had a hand in some of the biggest horror<\/a> flicks of the modern era.<\/p>\n

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Right, let’s start with Osgood Perkins’ recent work<\/h2>\n

Though he will forever be known as Dorky David from Legally Blonde<\/a>, you’ve proboably watched Osgood Perkins’ recent work without even realising it. In the last few years alone, he’s written, directed, and produced some of the biggest horror films.<\/p>\n

The first big one was 2015’s The Blackcoat’s Daughter, starring Emma Roberts and Kiernan Shipka. He also wrote and directed Netflix’s<\/a> I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, and 2020’s Gretel & Hansel.<\/p>\n

His most successful projects have undoubtedly been Longlegs, which has 86 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes, and The Monkey starring Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Elijah Wood, and Adam Scott. The Monkey recieved rave reviews this year, debuting with 96 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes before falling to 77 per cent.<\/p>\n