Mikey Madison Lastly Feels the Full Weight of Her Spoilery Scream Kill

Mikey Madison is lastly coming to phrases with what she did. A couple of years again, the star of this 12 months’s Oscar hopeful Anora performed Amber within the fifth Scream film. Within the sequel (merely titled Scream), Amber is ultimately revealed to be not just one of the two Ghostface Killers, however the one who killed Dewey, David Arquette’s character from the unique Scream. It was a big deal, one which Madison didn’t fairly grasp on the time.

“I’ve to be sincere, after I did the movie, it sounds naive, however I wasn’t so conscious of the large fan base that the franchise has, that I’ve now been in a position to uncover,” Madison told Collider Ladies Night. “Scream and horror followers and individuals who love horror movies are one of the best individuals ever, however I actually naively went into it.”

Solely three characters—Sidney (Neve Campbell), Gale (Courteney Cox), and Dewey (Arquette)—survived the unique Scream movies so killing one was an enormous shock. And for it to be Dewey particularly was very impactful. He’s a personality who to that time was seen as nearly invincible, having survived all method of stabbings and different assaults. It’s a high quality that deeply endeared him to the viewers. Followers of the trilogy took the loss arduous and, apparently, some even blamed Madison.

“I bear in mind being sort of unhappy as a result of I used to be like, ‘Oh, such an awesome character. It’ll be unhappy to see him go.’ After which I spotted afterward the heartbreak that so many individuals felt,” she mentioned. “Folks have come as much as me, and so they’re like, ‘I hate that this occurred. I’m mad at you.’ And I’m like, ‘I’m so sorry, I didn’t write the script!’ I didn’t need to do it.”

In our opinion, killing Dewey—or at the very least one of many legacy characters—needed to occur for the Scream torch to be correctly handed onto this new technology. And although that has since been fumbled round in some horrible methods (Campbell dropping out of part six, Melissa Barrera being fired from half seven, and many others.), elevating the stakes by killing somebody essential was the correct name. We think about it has to occur once more quickly too.

Madison can presently be seen in Anora; the Scream franchise, with Campbell and Cox returning to co-star, will be back next year.

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