Matthew Lillard is "slightly terrified" to return to the ‘Scream’ franchise. The 55-year-old actor appeared in the original 1996 slasher as the villainous Stu Macher, AKA one of the Ghostface killers, and has now admitted he is somewhat dreading coming back to the series for ‘Scream 7’ because he doesn’t want to "screw up a legacy that [they] have". Speaking at 90s Con alongside his fellow ‘Scream’ castmates David Arquette, Jamie Kennedy, Dermot Mulroney and Skeet Ulrich, Lillard said: "I will say, I can't say anything about it, obviously.
But I am very excited and slightly terrified to be back because all I can do is really screw up a legacy that we have. "I could really suck, and so that's my fear. My fear is that I come back and sort of punish something that I could never have touched and been just fine.
I hope I don't F it up for everyone." While Lillard is set to return to the horror series in the 2026 movie, the actor previously revealed there was a version of ‘Scream 3’ in which his Stu Macher returned - despite the character meeting a grizzly end in the original film. The ‘Five Nights At Freddy’s’ star explained to Vulture in 2022: "I was supposed to do ‘Scream 3’.
I got paid for ‘3’. Not really well, but I ended up getting paid for something I didn’t do because the idea was that I’d be running high-school killers from jail. "Look, it’s a horror movie! Crazy things happen all the time.
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