Neve Campbell rponds to Scream theori that Billy and Stu are gay - PopBuzz

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• ‘SCREAM’ SCREENWRER KEV WILLIAMSON CONFIRMS BILLY AND STU’S QUEER-COD RELATNSHIP WAS BASED ON REAL GAY KILLERS
• STUART “STU” GAY
• NEVE CAMPBELL RPONDS TO SCREAM THEORI THAT BILLY AND STU ARE GAY
• NEVE CAMPBELL ADDRS GAY TENSN BETWEEN BILLY AND STU SCREAM
• [HORROR QUEERS] GAYG UP THE BIGGT HORROR FRANCHISE OF THE 90S WH ‘SCREAM’!

‘SCREAM’ SCREENWRER KEV WILLIAMSON CONFIRMS BILLY AND STU’S QUEER-COD RELATNSHIP WAS BASED ON REAL GAY KILLERS

If you’re still wonrg about those homoerotic unrton 25 years after Billy Loomis and Stu Macher terrorized Woodsboro W Craven’s “Scream, ” you’ve been on the right track all along.

Ahead of the new “Scream, ” out Friday, openly gay screenwrer of the first “Scream, ” Kev Williamson, has nfirmed that Billy (Skeet Ulrich) and Stu (Matthew Lillard), who are thought to be queer by many LGBTQ+ fan theorists, were based on famo mass murrers Nathan Frnthal Leopold Jr. And Richard Albert Loeb, both of whom reportedly admted they were gay and a relatnship. ” Both are noted for their homoeroticism.

“It’s very sort of homoerotic, the sense that there were the two guys that killed this other person jt to see if they uld get away wh , ” Williamson said, drawg parallels between the Leopold and Loeb se and Billy and Stu. In one scene, Ray (Shawn Wayans), based on Stu, and Bobby (Jon Abrahams), based on Billy, joke about beg gay, divulgg to a Sidney-like character lled Cdy (Anna Faris) that, “That’s right, Cdy, I’m gay.

STUART “STU” GAY

Williamson adms that when he wrote the origal “Scream, ” which was released 1996, he was “very hant to prent the gay si of me my work, ” rultg the queerns of characters Billy and Stu beg “a ltle d and maybe accintal.

Maybe I wouldn’t be that shy ltle gay wrer who felt like he uldn’t get away wh .

NEVE CAMPBELL RPONDS TO SCREAM THEORI THAT BILLY AND STU ARE GAY

Recently, an terview wh The Inpennt, Williamson nfsed that the “Scream” movi are “d gay survival, ” wh Sidney beg, sentially, a maniftatn of his stggl as a gay person.

“And so I thk that’s one of the reasons Fal Girls are so important to as a gay dience. ” Before he wrote Sidney, he related to Jamie Lee Curtis’ Lrie Stro “Halloween” bee, beg gay, “he unrstands the “plight of the Fal Girl.

“I thk gay kids everywhere unrstand that survival element that we have to sort of create ourselv. And when we’re watchg that Fal Girl have to prove herself and rise to the challenge and save her life, I thk that’s somethg gay kids anywhere n relate to. Touched by how many LGBTQ+ people have felt spired by Sidney, Campbell said her heroic character “giv people that nfince that they n overe” and that she unrstands why “ mak sense certaly for the queer muny and gay men.

NEVE CAMPBELL ADDRS GAY TENSN BETWEEN BILLY AND STU SCREAM

Of urse Mdy is a rult of a shift LGBTQ+ reprentatn — now, to queer- characters would be an embarrassg step backwards — but Williamson also attribut the character to a shift his own growth as a gay man. That growth, he said, led him to wre the character of Jack McPhee, an openly gay teen who appeared as a “Dawson’s Creek” seri regular startg 1998. I never believed the theory Billy and Stu are gay, but I jt found an Easter egg possible provg.

He'd begun his work adult film wh gay porn stud Sean Cody startg 2013 and was a fan favore. Peter Benjam ma a Groupchat wh a whole lot of gay iends.

[HORROR QUEERS] GAYG UP THE BIGGT HORROR FRANCHISE OF THE 90S WH ‘SCREAM’!

Gayns. Two killers walk to a gay bar.

Stuart “Stu” Gay, 56, of Port Nech, died on Sunday, December 2, 2018.