Yahoo Lifestyle Mikey Madison Says ‘Scream’ Fans Go Up to Her and Say ‘I’m Mad at You’ for Killing David Arquette’s Dewey: ‘I’m So Sorry. I Didn’t Write the Script’
“Anora” star Mikey Madison recently told Collider that she underestimated just how furiously “Scream” fans would react to her character, Amber Freeman, being revealed as Ghostface and thus responsible for the death of David Arquette’s beloved Dewey in 2022’s “Scream.” Madison was not aware of the “Scream” franchise’s passionate following when she accepted the role.
“I have to be honest, when I did the film, it sounds naive, but I wasn’t so aware of the huge fan base that the franchise has, that I’ve now been able to discover,” Madison said. “Scream and horror fans and people who love horror films are the best people ever, but I really naively went into it.”
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“I remember being kind of sad because I was like, ‘Oh, such a great character. It’ll be sad to see him go.’ And then I realized afterward the heartbreak that so many people felt,” she continued. “People have come up to me, and they’re like, ‘I hate that this happened. I’m mad at you.’ And I’m like, ‘I’m so sorry, I didn’t write the script!’ I didn’t want to do it.”
When she was originally told that her character would be the film’s Ghostface, she thought it sounded “really fun” and “I would absolutely like to do that. I specifically would love to play this Ghostface character because it’s such an interesting, fun reveal and it’s such a crazy, unpredictable arc for a character, as well.”
Madison is currently a frontrunner to land a best actress Oscar nomination for her performance in Sean Baker’s “Anora,” which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes earlier this year. Baker told Variety in September that it was Madison’s acting in “Scream,” plus “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” that convinced him she’d be perfect for “Anora.”
“I was in the theater next to my wife and producer [Samantha Quan], and I turned to her and I said, ‘We’re calling Mikey’s reps the minute we leave the theater,’” Baker said about watching 2022’s “Scream” reboot. “I just saw in those two roles that she could give me everything I needed for [‘Anora’].”
Head over to Collider’s website to read more from Madison’s latest interview.
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