Neve Campbell Insists Scream 6 Salary Offer Did Not 'Value' Her Legacy — but It Sounds Like She Got a Big Payday for Scream 7

Scream 7 is astir here, and it’s wide that immoderate fans are thrilled to spot Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott backmost successful the blistery spot aft she was famously absent successful the erstwhile installment. But for Campbell, the prime was clear: determination was nary mode she could instrumentality to the franchise successful 2022’s Scream 6 due to the fact that her wage connection didn’t bespeak the 25 years of dedication she felt she gave to this story.

“When I made that decision, I conscionable didn’t deliberation I could unrecorded with myself walking connected set,” the histrion precocious told CBS Mornings successful an interrogation astir Scream 7. “I conscionable didn’t consciousness right. I conscionable knew that my worth to this franchise was bigger than what had been offered. For me, I needed to marque that choice.”

The bittersweet but existent information was that, astatine the clip of the wage dispute, Campbell was unsure she would ever get to spell head-to-head with Ghostface ever again. “When I said goodbye to it, I thought that was it,” she added. “I knew that determination was a bully accidental that would beryllium it.”

She besides highlighted that it was achy to not beryllium connected acceptable knowing a Scream movie was being made without her, but that she knew she had made the close determination for her astatine that time. “And erstwhile I spoke retired astir it, it wasn’t truly to benignant of rally everybody,” Campbell explained. “It was truly conscionable my information astatine the time, and the information the radical got down me, I got beauteous support, and that was nice. And I bash consciousness that different radical request to marque those choices.”

In June 2022, Campbell made a connection to Variety revealing that she would not instrumentality for Scream 6 for fiscal reasons. “As a pistillate I person had to enactment highly hard successful my vocation to found my value, particularly erstwhile it comes to Scream,” she told the outlet astatine the time. “I felt the connection that was presented to maine did not equate to the worth I person brought to the franchise. It’s been a precise hard determination to determination on.”

That said, determination were in-roads made betwixt Scream 6 and Scream 7 that brought Campbell backmost into the fold. After Melissa Barrera, who played starring woman Sam successful Scream 5 and Scream 6, was fired from the seventh installment successful precocious 2023, and Jenna Ortega, who played her sister Tara, departed the movie soon afterward, Campbell was capable to usage her authorization to negociate a instrumentality that made her consciousness respected.

According to Variety, Campbell secured a astir $7 cardinal woody for Scream 7, whereas Scream mainstay Courteney Cox was paid $2 million. “Neve Campbell is to Scream what Jamie Lee Curtis is for the Halloween franchise,” manager of movie analytics astatine Fandango, Shawn Robbins, told Variety. “She’s a large draw, particularly for older generations who grew up with the archetypal films.” And he’s perfectly close there; there’s ever going to beryllium immoderate portion of the fandom that wants to spot Sidney’s communicative through.

Fans astir apt will get to spot Sidney’s communicative through, due to the fact that if this movie does well, there’s decidedly going to beryllium a propulsion for an eighth installment. But lone clip volition archer astatine this point. Scream 7 arrives successful theaters connected February 28.

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Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.