Scream 7 spoilers follow.
Scream 7 may have set the record for the franchise’s biggest opening weekend, but it’s been mired in controversy and set the record for the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score after reviews dubbed it the “blandest”.
Now one of the stars has admitted that they didn’t know why their character was Ghostface, stating that there was “nothing” in the script about it.
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In the film, it was revealed that the people behind the infamous mask are escaped Fallbrook patient Karl Gibbs (Kraig Dane), Fallbrook supervisor Marco (Ethan Embry), and Sidney’s neighbour Jessica Bowden (Anna Camp).
In her first interview since the film’s release, Anna Camp told the I’ve Never Said This Before podcast that she was a bit confused about her role.
“I played it as just a person who was absolutely obsessed. I even played it as if I was in love with [Sidney]”, she said.
“It didn’t quite… Maybe the lines weren’t there, but I had to come into that scene so emotionally filled with things that I had to create on my own because there was really nothing there in the script for me to draw on.
“I had to come up with the backstory, come up with why I loved her, why I was obsessed with her, and this is all on my own in my hotel room, ’cause the scenes beforehand didn’t do anything, didn’t inform the character at all. Really.”
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Camp said there were less scenes in the film than were in script, but even when she read the script, she felt like there wasn’t a lot for her to go on as Jessica only appeared in one scene before being revealed as the killer.
In the end, they added one scene of Jessica and Gale Weathers outside the house, while she also got to come up with a line about Jessica not liking her son as he reminded her of his father, which made it into the film.
Scream 7 is out cinemas now.
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