Neve Campbell Chim In On Fan Theory That 'Scream' Killers Billy And Stu Are Gay | HuffPost Entertament

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• NEVE CAMPBELL RPONDS TO SCREAM THEORI THAT BILLY AND STU ARE GAY
• NEVE CAMPBELL ADDRS GAY TENSN BETWEEN BILLY AND STU SCREAM
• IS NEVE CAMPBELL GAY?
• NEVE CAMPBELL WEIGHS IN ON ‘SCREAM’ FAN THEORY THAT BILLY & STU WERE GAY
• 54 BOMBED 1998. NOW IT’S BEEN RURRECTED AS A CULT GAY CLASSIC.
• ‘SCREAM’ SCREENWRER KEV WILLIAMSON CONFIRMS BILLY AND STU’S QUEER-COD RELATNSHIP WAS BASED ON REAL GAY KILLERS
• SCREAM IN NEVE CAMPBELL WEIGHS ON THEORY ORIGAL FILM HAD A SECRET GAY ROMANCE
• NEVE CAMPBELL CHIM IN ON FAN THEORY THAT 'SCREAM' KILLERS BILLY AND STU ARE GAY
• GILLIAN ANRSON, AMY ACKER, HAYLEY ATWELL AND NEVE CAMPBELL ANSWER OUR SUPER GAY QUTNS AT FANEXPO

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

It mak sense that the character — a smart, strong heroe — was created by openly gay screenwrer Kev Williamson. This is one of those rare moments for me when I n hontly say, if you told ltle, gay Chris at 15 years old that he’d one day terview the person who played someone who reprented survival and perseverance to him, he wouldn’t have believed you.

You mt get that om gay boys. So why do you thk Scream Queens like yourself are revered so much by seemgly gay men particular? Yeah, but also I thk ’s not jt gay men.

So I thk mak sense certaly for the queer muny and gay men. I’m happy that Kev Williamson recently divulged how the “Scream” movi are d gay survival.

NEVE CAMPBELL ADDRS GAY TENSN BETWEEN BILLY AND STU SCREAM

Did you know om the begng that Sidney was a maniftatn of Kev’s personal experienc as a gay man? So, whether that be gay or straight or whatever, ’s a very siar story, you know?

] Listen, you know, I grew up the dance world, so I was Natnal Ballet School by the time I was 9 and, to be hont, the majory of the boys my class were gay, bee a lot of your muny are drawn to the arts and drawn to that world and feel more accepted and are more accepted that world. Also, I grew up Toronto, which I thk [has] the send hight gay muny North Ameri, so, you know [lghs]. It was a man who wanted to have a birthday ke and have Bert and Ernie reprent his gay openns and strength, and the bakery refed to make the ke for him.

IS NEVE CAMPBELL GAY?

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 premiere, Mg mak their drag but at a lol gay nightclub, Babylon, where they channel the 1996 teen film The Craft, starrg Neve Campbell, Rob Tunney, Faiza Balk and Rachel Te. Neve add: “So I thk mak sense certaly for the queer muny and gay men.

NEVE CAMPBELL WEIGHS IN ON ‘SCREAM’ FAN THEORY THAT BILLY & STU WERE GAY

Referencg Kev Williamson, the mastermd behd the legendary anchise, sayg the movi “are d gay survival, ” Neve add that a queer subplot is a likely “possibily”. But the meantime the actrs has taken the time to addrs one of the biggt (and longt) fan theori that has been discsed wh fan muni of Scream: are Billy and Stu gay and love? Then there’s the homoerotic tensn of murrg people together, and then there’s the fact well…they did stab one another a few tim and we know what that bla uld be a metaphor for, right?

54 BOMBED 1998. NOW IT’S BEEN RURRECTED AS A CULT GAY CLASSIC.

Regardls of what we thk about the gay tensn wh that relatnship, Neve Campbell also has her own thoughts about what the Billy and Stu relatnship meant Scream. Campbell isn’t the first actor to talk about the gay tensn between Billy and Stu.

In other queer news, Kev Williamson, creator of Scream, has prevly talked about how the seri was d ‘gay survival’ om the very start – particularly wh the character of Sidney Prtt. “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, ” Williamson stated.

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

Neve Campbell has never ma any public statement about this, so all mors about if Neve Campbell is gay rema pletely unfound and unproven. Yet, as often happens wh artists of this field, the mors that Neve Campbell is gay are persistent, which is surely annoyg.

More and more celebri adm every year that they are gay, but this is not the se wh Neve Campbell sce this celebry never said so. Although Neve Campbell has never admted to beg gay, the media always nsirs the likelihood of one day reportg on the other.

SCREAM IN NEVE CAMPBELL WEIGHS ON THEORY ORIGAL FILM HAD A SECRET GAY ROMANCE

Although Neve Campbell hasn't reported to be homosexual, beg a famo artist and homosexual is somethg unrstood as normal by the society. ” Campbell said as Azzopardi circled the qutn of whether Stu and Billy were secretly gay.

“Yeah, ’s very much a possibily, and now that Kev’s out and talkg more about that, I would image that’s a big part of his thkg, ” add Campbell, referencg openly gay “Scream” creator Kev Williamson. In the years sce the film me out, bootleg versns of Christopher’s origal cut have circulated wily, earng 54 a kd of cult stat as a lost classic of gay cema — a stat affirmed wh the Berl screeng. Like Stud 54 self, the film was suffed wh homoeroticism.

NEVE CAMPBELL CHIM IN ON FAN THEORY THAT 'SCREAM' KILLERS BILLY AND STU ARE GAY

Disney, which owned the pany, was also prsurg the stud to tone down the film’s gay ntent and dg e, and make the characters more likable. Towleroad wonred if the cut was “a lost gay classic? Now It’s a Cult Gay Classic.

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.

GILLIAN ANRSON, AMY ACKER, HAYLEY ATWELL AND NEVE CAMPBELL ANSWER OUR SUPER GAY QUTNS AT FANEXPO

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.

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.