Kristen Stewart reveals that she turned down a role similar to Drew Barrymore in Scream 4. Back in 1996, the Scream franchise kicked off with a now-iconic opening scene that plays out as a horrific one-act play that sets the tone for the entire series. Home alone, teenager Casey Becker (Barrymore) receives a flirtatious phone call from a stranger (voiced by Roger L. Jackson) and the two jokingly discuss scary movies before the conversation turns sadistic and threatening. Ghostface soon arrives on the scene killing his boyfriend Steve and then Casey by hanging his body from a tree on display.
Stewart is best known for her role as Bella Swan in the Twilight series, although much like her co-star Robert Pattinson, she has continued to distance herself from that character by avoiding big-budget films and carefully selecting roles in independent films like Clouds of Sils Maria and Buyer. staff. She is now coming off an exceptional year in which she played Diana, Princess of Wales, in Pablo Larraín's biographical drama Spencer. The performance resulted in her first Academy Award nomination for Actress in a Leading Role, surprisingly beating out the expected nominee Lady Gaga for House of Gucci.
During an interview with Tilt promoting magazine SpencerStewart revealed a role that she left in recent years: Scream 4 (sometimes referred to as SCRE4M). The role she was offered was that of a Barrymore-type character who dies early on, but Stewart felt some pressure living up to Barrymore's memorable performance in Scream's iconic opening scene and she didn't want to try to recreate it. Read what Stewart had to say below:
So it's the Drew [Barrymore] character that dies at the beginning. And they created a whole sequence where they killed a lot of people to emulate Drew. But he was just going to be one person, and I was like, “I can't do a Drew. I can't touch that. You know what I mean? But yeah, so they ended up doing, if I remember correctly, a bigger sequence and not just one victim.
Scream 4's opening sequence uses a movie-within-a-movie approach to show various stars like Kristen Bell, Anna Paquin, and Lucy Hale being killed within the universe. Stab movies before the film's real victims, Marnie Cooper (Britt Robertson) and Jenny Randall (Aimee Teegarden), are killed by Ghostface. However, it seems that when Stewart was offered the part, it was just going to be her character on the wrong end of the knife in Ghostface in the opening scene. Considering that SCRE4M was released in 2011, Stewart was in the midst of making the Twilight movies when she was offered the role.
Besides not being able to find time in his schedule for Scream 4, it's understandable that Stewart didn't want to touch Barrymore's legacy out of respect for the actress and Scream's masterful opening scene. Though with Scream 6 officially in development, Stewart didn't rule out the possibility of joining the cast if the opportunity presented itself. In the meantime, fans of Stewart can tune in to the Academy Awards later this month to see if he can wow audiences and take home Oscar gold.
