Neve Campbell was nonted wh a longstandg fan mour about "Scream" characters Stu (Matthew Lillard) and Billy (Skeet Ulrich) durg an terview wh Chris Azzopardi of Pri Source. "Are you wonrg whether there was a burgeong love relatnship gog on there?" Campbell said as Azzopardi circled the qutn of whether Stu and Billy were secretly gay. "Perhaps,…
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- ‘SCREAM’ SCREENWRER KEV WILLIAMSON CONFIRMS BILLY AND STU’S QUEER-COD RELATNSHIP WAS BASED ON REAL GAY KILLERS
- 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 NFIRMS BILLY AND STU’S D QUEER RELATNSHIP WAS BASED ON REAL GAY KILLERS
- NEVE CAMPBELL WEIGHS IN ON ‘SCREAM’ FAN THEORY THAT BILLY & STU WERE GAY
- SCREAM IN NEVE CAMPBELL WEIGHS ON THEORY ORIGAL FILM HAD A SECRET GAY ROMANCE
- IN THE SCREAM 5POSTER, THE FRANCHISE'S ‘GAY SURVIVAL’ SUBTEXT BE TEXT
‘SCREAM’ SCREENWRER KEV WILLIAMSON CONFIRMS BILLY AND STU’S QUEER-COD RELATNSHIP WAS BASED ON REAL GAY KILLERS
OG Scream actrs Neve Campbell addrs the gay tensn between origal Ghostface killers, Billy and Stu. * is billy gay scream *
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.
NEVE CAMPBELL RPONDS TO SCREAM THEORI THAT BILLY AND STU ARE GAY
* is billy gay scream *
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.
NEVE CAMPBELL ADDRS GAY TENSN BETWEEN BILLY AND STU SCREAM
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.
[HORROR QUEERS] GAYG UP THE BIGGT HORROR FRANCHISE OF THE 90S WH ‘SCREAM’!
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 .
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.
‘SCREAM’ SCREENWRER KEV WILLIAMSON NFIRMS BILLY AND STU’S D QUEER RELATNSHIP WAS BASED ON REAL GAY KILLERS
“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 WEIGHS IN ON ‘SCREAM’ FAN THEORY THAT BILLY & STU WERE GAY
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.
SCREAM IN NEVE CAMPBELL WEIGHS ON THEORY ORIGAL FILM HAD A SECRET GAY ROMANCE
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. Neve Campbell has revealed whether or not she agre wh theori that Billy and Stu were gay the origal Scream sce Scream first me out 1996, there have been multiple fan theori that Billy and Stu had romantic feelgs for each other. Randy even lls Billy a "homo reprsed momma's boy" Scream 2.
Neve Campbell rponds to Scream theori that Billy and Stu are gay. Jt last month (Dec 6), Kev Williamson, who wrote the origal Scream script, told the pennt that the first film is queer-d: "As a gay kid, I related to the fal girl and to her stggle, bee ’s what one has to do to survive as a young gay kid, too.
Subnscly, I thk the Scream movi are d gay survival.
IN THE SCREAM 5POSTER, THE FRANCHISE'S ‘GAY SURVIVAL’ SUBTEXT BE TEXT
I never believed the theory Billy and Stu are gay, but I jt found an Easter egg possible provg.