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- ‘SCREAM’ SCREENWRER KEV WILLIAMSON CONFIRMS BILLY AND STU’S QUEER-COD RELATNSHIP WAS BASED ON REAL GAY KILLERS
- [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.
[HORROR QUEERS] GAYG UP THE BIGGT HORROR FRANCHISE OF THE 90S WH ‘SCREAM’!
“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.
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.