Matthew Lillard reveals how he learned Stu would return in Scream 7

Surprise, Matthew Lillard! And the actor, 55, was indeed shocked to find out he would be included in “Scream 7,” nearly 30 years after audiences were first introduced to his character in the 1996 original.In “Scream,” Lillard portrayed Stu Macher, one of two killers alongside his best friend Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich).“I was on a walk.

I was on a business call with my company, Find Familiar Spirits,” he recounted to Entertainment Weekly.“I put them on hold because Kevin Williamson called me in the middle of the day.”The filmmaker, 60, wrote “Scream,” its 1997 sequel, “Scream 2 and “Scream 4” (2011).

“Scream 7” marks Williamson’s first time directing, following the death of original director Wes Craven in 2015.“I was like, ‘That’s really weird,'” Lillard continued.“I had just seen him three weeks earlier at a game night at Mike Flanagan’s house.

So the moment is immortalized in my mind.I picked up the phone and we had small talk for five minutes, and it was like, ‘Do you want to come back?’ I literally was like, ‘Oh my!’ I, like, screamed.”However, after Williamson previously denied fan theories that Stu was alive, the “Five Nights at Freddy’s” actor thought returning was out of the question.

“When he asked me, I was like, ‘I thought you didn’t want me in the film,'” Lillard recalled.“He’s like, ‘I wanted you to shut up because I want you in the film.'” Since then, the “Scooby-Doo” star has kept tight-lipped about his character’s return.“I will tell you, if I have a secret, I am 90 percent gonna tell someone that I have a secret,” Lillard admitted.

“And the weird thing is, I have not told a single soul about how or why Stu comes back.” But he can’t wait for fans to see this next chapter. “It’s testing through the roof,” Lillard gushed.

“I think the last regime of actors and creatives were incredible.I think they did a great job.

I think the movie was ...