Apparently, there are all different kinds.
“It was in a larger area where blood had to go 360 degrees,” she recalls.
It was fun."
Melissa Barrera stars as Joey in ‘Abigail’.Bernard Walsh/Universal Pictures
Their mission: keep the kid at a safe house overnight while the dad coughs up the ransom money.
Don’t use real names; don’t let the girl see your face.
“They might want to work with someone else, and that’s totally valid.”
Melissa Barrera as Samantha Carpenter in ‘Scream VI’.Everett Collection
Now let’s do our version that is wholly our taste and isn’t beholden to anything.'
So that was a nice stepping stone towardsAbigail," Bettinelli-Olpin says.
“But it also was exciting to work with someone you love again.”
Melissa Barrera’s Joey in ‘Abigail’.Bernard Walsh/Universal Pictures
“We make a run at keep it in the family as much as possible.”
“Everybody wants to work with them and work with them again.”
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Radio Silence and Barrera departed theScreamfranchise after that sixth film, albeit for very different reasons.
In the end, the powers that be at Spyglass couldn’t makeScream VIIon a speedy timeline anyway.
Another result: the replacement director, Christopher Landon,parted ways.
Scream VIIwill now be helmed byKevin Williamson, who wrote the screenplays forScream,Scream 2, andScream 4.
So far,Neve Campbellis the only actorconfirmed to return, thoughCourteney Coxisin talks.
The silver lining for Barrera is theScreamfans who showed their support for the actress online.
“It was very beautiful, very unexpected,” she says.
“Obviously, I just didn’t know what the reaction was going to be.
“There’s something that just draws you to them.
To see the support from the [Scream] fans, I just felt very validated.
Looking ahead toAbigailand what’s next for her, Barrera remarks, “I’m not opposed to anything.
So that’s important to me now more than ever.”
And forAbigail, it was the vampires, whom she loves almost as equally as blood cannons.
“It’s always been my dream to be in a vampire movie,” Barrera says.
It was literally my biggest frustration.
I begged them to make teeth for me.
I just wanted the teeth!”
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