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“I don’t really care about Stu Macher,” Lillard confirmed to Collider. “It’s a part I played. It’s like if you’re a plumber, do you care about the house you did down the street and around the corner? No, it’s your job. And I love that job, it’s been nice to have that in my resume, but the reality is that it’s a part I did 20-plus years ago.”
He continued, “So, what is important to me is that what it means to other people is deeply relevant when you see them all the time, and powerful. It’s not something I understood before that.”
While other figures in the Scream franchise, and in the horror genre in general, are a bit more enthusiastic about select roles and champion the returns of such character, Lillard’s comments imply that he’s appreciative of the support from fans but likely won’t be pushing for Stu to somehow be revived.
Thanks in large part to Lillard’s compelling performance, fans have been hoping that Stu could somehow be brought back into the contemporary timeline of the Scream series and theorize about how he could have survived the original movie, though Lillard likely isn’t as invested in such a return. Even the writer of the original Scream Kevin Williamson teased that Stu could return, having shared with Entertainment Tonight earlier this year, “I mean, I would say never but I have always been wrong when I do … You can’t say ‘never’ … There’s always that twin brother theory.”
Stay tuned for updates on the future of the Scream franchise.
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