Scream Star Mikey Madison Says Fans Always Come Up To Her And Give Her The Exact Same Criticism, And Awkward

Those of us who like scary movies have been lucky with the genre’s current renaissance, where some of the best horror movies have returned with new sequels. That includes Scream, which has gotten two recent sequels (which are streaming with a Paramount+ subscription). Mikey Madison starred as Amber in the 2022 movie, and says fans always come up to her and give her the exact same criticism.

What we now about Scream 7 is limited, so fans are still dissecting the last few installments while we wait for the upcoming horror movie to arrive. Mikey Madison got to be Ghostface in 2022’s Scream, and gave a killer performance as the Woodsboro resident turned killer. Her character Amber killed Dewey halfway through the film, to the dismay of longtime fans. In a recent conversation with Variety, the Anora actress revealed how the fandom has interacted with her in the years since the slasher hit theaters, saying:

Poor thing. Madison make a great point, as it wasn’t her decision to kill off one of Scream’s three leading characters. That was the writers; her job was simply to play Amber as best she could. Although it sounds like she learned the hard way just how much fans loved Dewey.

After Dewey was killed off, David Arquette was (understandably) missing from Scream 7, which also was lacking Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott. That meant that Gale Weather was the only one of the OG trilogy to appear, although more Scream legacy characters have popped up like Kirby Reed. Later in her same interview, Mikey Madison explained how little shew about Scream lore ahead of being cast as Ghostface, saying: