During a surprise appearance at Cinespia‘s Halloween party screening of Scream, star Matthew Lillard slammed ICE and advocated for the crowd to vote and “lead with love.”
“Fuck ICE,” he said on stage to huge audience cheers. “In this time, in this city, we need to lead with love. Do not forget that shit in this moment — not to be political, but to be political as shit.”
He also urged those in attendance at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery to vote Yes on Proposition 50, a ballot initiative that would redraw California’s congressional districts to cancel out the five extra GOP seats created in Texas.
“You have to vote. If you don’t vote, we are going down, so it’s on us. And if you don’t like that, I’m so not sorry,” he concluded.
Lillard is perhaps known for portraying Stu Macher — one-half of the horror-obsessive-turned-serial-killing duo, alongside Skeet Ulrich’s Billy Loomis — in the 1996 original, which has since spawned a decades-long franchise. The razor-sharp slasher, which leans into and subverts genre tropes, also stars Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, Rose McGowan, Courtney Cox, Jamie Kennedy and David Arquette, among others.
The Scooby-Doo alum is returning to the franchise for Spyglass/Paramount’s Scream 7 (releasing Feb. 27), Deadline exclusively announced early this year. It’s currently unknown how exactly he makes his character reprisal, as Stu seemed to have died after Sidney (Campbell) dropped a TV on his head. And that’s not even mentioning the stab wounds he and Billy traded to make it look like they were victims of Ghostface.
Lillard will appear alongside fellow legacy cast members Campbell and Cox as well as Scott Foley, Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown, alongside newcomers Isabel May, Celeste O’Connor, Asa Germann, Mckenna Grace, Sam Rechner, Anna Camp, Joel McHale and Mark Consuelos. Both Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega were originally set to return as their on-screen sister duo; however, the former was unceremoniously dropped from the project after calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, and the latter walked away from the project shortly thereafter both as a form of solidarity and because it “was all kind of falling apart” creatively.
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