‘Scream’ Star Jack Quaid on Toxic Fandom and Loving ‘The Last Jedi’
thewrap.com“Scream” movie without some new blood?Among the young cast members joining the franchise for this, the fifth (!) installment in the outrageously popular horror series that began with Wes Craven’s stone cold masterpiece in 1996, are Melissa Barrera, Kyle Gallner, Mikey Madison, Dylan Minnette, Jenna Ortega and, of course, Jack Quaid.
Quaid plays Richie, the boyfriend of Barrera’s Sam, who gets roped into a murder mystery connected to events from the 1996 original.
As it stands in the “Scream” universe, good-natured boyfriends are either sadistically evil (Skeet Ulrich in the original film) or brutally killed (Jerry O’Connell in “Scream 2”).
But Quaid walks a fine line, never showing his cards or leading the audience on in one way or another.TheWrap spoke to Quaid about what it was like joining such a revered franchise, how it felt sharing scenes with legacy “Scream” performers like Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette, and what he really thinks of “The Last Jedi,” a movie that, if not namechecked in the movie, is certainly invoked.What was your relationship with the “Scream” franchise before signing on?Jack Quaid: My relationship with the “Scream” franchise was, I had kind of an interesting thing with it where, when I was about four years old, I went trick or treating for the first time.
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