It must be surreal to shoot a death scene in a movie. No, I actually thought that, “Oh gosh, she’ll never give him the time of day.” I was wrong. I can’t find a gay club, let me try this.”ĭid you notice Courteney and David getting closer? Crashing people’s prom parties because we were so bored. We found out it was prom night in the town so we started chasing all these limos, following all these prom cars, trying to figure out where to go. It was funny, one night I remember David Arquette and I were bored, and we weren’t working. It was very, very fun, but it was very, very calm. I look back on it, and now I think it’s probably the best set I’ve ever been on. Anybody who had a jacked-up pickup truck was all over me. Any guy that I liked wouldn’t give me the time of day. From a sociological perspective, it was actually fascinating. I immediately went down in the social strata of dating. It was like every plumber wanted to date me with that hair color. I was shuttled off to Cathy’s colorist, and I got a nice shade of Middle American blond. Who’s your colorist?” And it was like a light blub went on over their head. So I’m sitting in a meeting with Cathy Conrad, the producer, who’s blond, and I just found out that they cast a brunette, and I said, “Cathy, I really want to make my hair blond.

And at this point, they’d they’d just cast Neve - as film rules go, you can’t have two people that have dark hair. They pulled their offer and made me come back in and re-test twice and didn’t give me a cent over what their original offer was for because they were so pissed off at my lawyer. The inside scoop is that I auditioned for it and then they made me an offer, and then they got so pissed off with what my lawyer, who was way too aggressive, countered with. I was so green - I didn’t really have a good reference point for a whole lot other than that I like a good story and it was certainly a good yarn.

ROSE MCGOWAN: I thought it was a fantastic script when I got it. Says McGowan, “I’m known to have the worst aim on the planet, and so when I was throwing the beer bottles, I shattered the lens of the camera.” EW talked to McGowan about the original Scream, dying her hair blonde for the role, and the time she and Arquette crashed a prom party.ĮNTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Do you remember reading the script for the first time? McGowan’s most famous moment came when Tatum was attacked by Ghostface in her boyfriend’s garage and defended herself by throwing beer bottles. Rose McGowan played Tatum Riley, the spunky best friend to Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott and sister to David Arquette’s Dewey. In honor of the release of Scream 4 this Friday, EW is looking back at the original 1996 film and talking to cast members about their best production memories. EW: Rose McGowan Looks Back on Filming Scream

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