Summary

Screamactor Matthew Lillard offers a candid reaction regarding what the role of Stu Macher actually mean to him . unloosen in 1996 , Wes Craven ’s iconic slasher film would kickstart a franchise that now consists of six installment , the most late of which was released earlier this year . While there have been many memorable Ghostface killers over the age , Lillard ’s Stu , who serve as the surprise villain of the first film alongside Billy Loomis ( Skeet Ulrich ) , remains a clear favorite .

Now , 27 eld later , Lillard opens aboutStu ’s legacy in theScreamfranchisein a late interview withCollider . The actor shares some surprising thoughts about what the character actually means to him after all this time , revealing that it ’s the audience response to the character that he really deal about . Check out Lillard ’s full commentary below :

“ I do n’t really like about Stu Macher . 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 recession ? No , it ’s your line . And I enjoy that business , it ’s been gracious to have that in my resume , but the realness is that it ’s a part I did 20 - plus years ago .

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" So , what is of import to me is that what it means to other people is profoundly relevant when you see them all the time , and powerful . It ’s not something I realize before that . "

Stu’s Scream Legacy Explained

While it ’s always laborious for a franchise to top its first episode , Stu and Billy have really taken on a animation of their own as Sidney Prescott ’s ( Neve Campbell ) story has go on . The reveal that it was in reality two Ghostface slayer and not just one came as quite a surprisal in the first movie , and the unhinged dynamic between the two collaborators was both hilarious and terrifying . Billy very definitively adjoin his closing in the first moving-picture show , but Stu ’s death was somewhat more ambiguous , leading to some tenacious theories in subsequent films .

One of the most majortheories that remained prominent even inScream 6was that Stu remains live in the world of the picture show and that he may not be done shoot down just yet . The franchise is no stranger , after all , to characters suffer seemingly fatal wounds and then miraculously surviving . The two most recent instalment have even addressed and play into theories that Stu is alive , with 2022’sScreamfilled with quotation to the character andScream 6featuring dialog vexer that suggest there ’s some query in - creation regarding whether he really died .

TheScream 6ending , however , does feature one bit that could be seen as a nail in the coffin for those persistent " Stu lives " possibility . After a climactic confrontation , Kirby ( Hayden Panettiere ) fight the exact idiot box that defeat Stu onto Ethan ’s ( Jack Champion ) head , and it very clearly obliterate him . It seems , however , that despite this , theories fence Stu will hold up on , and the role will continue to hold a prominent situation inScreamlore .

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Source : Collider

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1996 ’s Scream follows a teenage missy who is targeted by a masked killer a class after her mother ’s slaying who uses horror flick as a baneful secret plan against her and her friends .

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1996’s Scream follows a teenage girl who is targeted by a masked killer a year after her mother’s murder who uses horror movies as a deadly game against her and her friends.

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1996’s Scream follows a teenage girl who is targeted by a masked killer a year after her mother’s murder who uses horror movies as a deadly game against her and her friends.

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