Kristen Stewart (L); Drew Barrymore inScream(1996).Photo: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic; Everett
“Scream queen” wasn’t quite the pathKristen Stewartsaw her career taking.
In an interview withSlantmagazinepublished Monday, theAcademy Award-nominatedSpenceractress recalled turning down an appearance in 2011’sScream 4— specifically, the opening death scene, which went on to featureKristen Bell,Anna Paquin,Britt Robertsonand Aimee Teegarden.
Stewart, 31, said she was contacted about portraying “theDrew [Barrymore]character that gets killed in the beginning,” although they eventually “created a whole sequence where a lot of people got killed to emulate the Drew thing.”
“But it was just going to be one person, and I was like, ‘I can’t do a Drew. I can’t touch that,’ " Stewart continued. “Do you know what I mean? But, yeah, so then they ended up doing, if I’m remembering correctly, a larger sequence and not just one victim.”
In the beginning ofScream 4, Bell, 41, and Paquin, 39, play onscreen victims in the movie-within-a-movie,Stab7, while high-schoolers Jenny (Teegarden, 32) and Marnie (Robertson, 31) are murdered after watching the flick at home.
Barrymore, 47, kicked off thenow-five-filmScreamfranchiseback in 1996, portraying doomed high-school student Casey Becker in the original movie’s iconic opening scene.
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Drew Barrymore inScream(1996).David M Moir/Miramax/Kobal/Shutterstock
Of whether she’d ever sign on to do aScreammovie in the future, Stewart toldSlatethat she “would read the script” and added of the franchise’s protagonist, “I loveNeve Campbellso much.”
“She was very nice to me, and it was very satisfying that she’s a very nice person,” she added.
Stewart went on to say she “love(s)“the original movie, and even “watched it recently, as an adult.”
“It’ssognarly. I love the movie because it loves movies,” she raved. “The coolest part ofScreamis what it says about film. It’s so self-aware. It folds in on itself like six times. I love how much [Wes Craven] loves movies and how embedded that is.”
“It’s a total film-nerd type of movie,” Stewart continued. “It’s not just a slasher flick. It’s a beautiful movie. It’ssohard to watch. I’m like, ‘I don’t have the stomach for that s— anymore.’ I was like, ‘Oh, man, this is very, very, very intense.’ "
RELATED VIDEO: Drew Barrymore Reunites withScreamCostars Courteney Cox, David Arquette and Neve Campbell on Her Show
While it has been more than 25 years sinceScreamhit theaters, Barrymore reunited with costars Campbell,Courteney CoxandDavid Arquetteon her daytime talk show in January to celebrate the release of the fifth film.
“This movie gave me everything; it was a springboard, I think, for all of us,” Campbell, 48,said during the show. “Its success really helped pave the way for all of us in our careers, and my life would be very, very different withoutScream.”
As for Cox, 57, theFriendsalum hilariously pointed out thatScreamhad a much more tangible effect on her life.
source: people.com
