It took a grueling three weeks to shoot the final spine-tingling sequence of the first “Scream” movie, Neve Campbell said while ruminating about the film Saturday at Steel City Con in Monroeville.
The Canadian actress who anchors the now-four-movie franchise as lead character Sidney Prescott credited the late director Wes Craven with constantly coming up with creative ways to get his actors to sustain “a certain level of terror.”
At one point, just before the camera rolled for her character’s final showdown with the masked killer, Craven approached Campbell and whispered something into her ear.
“Imagine you have a million bullets ricocheting throughout your body,” Campbell remembered the “A Nightmare on Elm Street” horror icon telling her.
He then abruptly walked away.
“And that helped. It helped a lot,” Campbell told the Tribune-Review on Saturday during a break from signing autographs for fans. “Just little stuff like that. He was unique in that way. Wes was just really, really great at giving you just the perfect thing to say to get you into the moment.”
Campbell, 46, is among two dozen celebrities featured at this weekend’s Steel City Con 2019, Pittsburgh’s Comic Con conference. The conference continues Sunday at the Monroeville Convention Center.
“In theater, when you’re on stage, you have the audience in front of you, and you get the immediate audience reaction and a sense of what they’re getting from your work,” Campbell said. “So when we get to meet our audience here, it’s really lovely, because we don’t get that with our films or from television.
“It’s nice to see the effect that our work has on people, to see that we’ve touched people in some way, and also to give them something back.”
She joined actors Jamie Kennedy and Chris Durand for a “Scream” panel question-and-answer session Saturday afternoon.
“The first one was obviously the magic, where the magic started,” Campbell said of the movie franchise. “The rest were like going back to summer camp, and what do we get to do now, and what fun are we going to have, and how are we going to make it different in some way, and how are we going to make it similar in some way. They’ve just all been a lot of fun.”
The panel was asked if there was any truth to the rumors about “Scream 5,” and who will be involved in it?
“All I know is as much as everybody knows, which is that they made an announcement that they’re going to make it,” Campbell said. “But no one has called me, so, who knows.”
Campbell said that if she’s asked, she’d make a decision based on what draws her to every project: “a good script.”
Craven died from brain cancer at his Los Angeles home in August 2015.
“I’d be really curious to see who they’re thinking of having direct it, that would be a really big piece, obviously,” said Campbell. “And then what the intentions are with the characters. Is it in keeping with the last films?”
Also featured at Steel City Con was Denise Richards, who co-started alongside Campbell and Matt Dillon in the racy murder mystery “Wild Things.”
Several fans praised Campbell for eclectic body of work, from her early days on hit TV show series “Party of Five” to her more recent work on dramatic indie films such as “Clouds,” which is set to be released in January. She’ll play a mother who has lost her young son to cancer in the movie based on “Fly A Little Higher,” the memoir of author Laura Sobiech, and Campbell says that she tapped into her own experience as a mother to prepare for the role emotionally.
“Inevitably, it all comes down to the word, and if the scripts are well-written, then there’s a much better chance you’re going to make a good piece,” Campbell said of choosing films to work on.
“I like to challenge myself, I like to do different things,” she said. “I like to do different genres and stretch myself in different ways.”
As for the “Party of Five” reboot set for next year, Campbell is delighted that the show will involve many of the same writers and creators that worked on the show in the 1990s.
“It’s a really great twist on the original ‘Party of Five.’ Where our parents had passed away from a drunk driver, in this case the parents are not dead, they’ve been sent across the border.
“It’s a very similar experience — how to live as children without your parents — but here’s a situation where it’s political as well, because it’s looking at a certain circumstance where a family’s been torn apart.”
Campbell said she thinks the cast and crew will do a good job.
“I hope they do, because it’s so meaningful,” she said. “It was my first big thing in America and was wonderful for me, and it’s the reason that I got the other work that I got, and it was a great learning ground for me.”
Campbell told the Trib that she’s working to develop three new TV shows, all dramas.
“One’s more like a cop drama, but with a severe twist. I don’t think I’ve seen it before,” she said. “One is about an attorney who is doing great work getting people exonerated in Chicago, and the other is a drama about mental illness.”
No word yet on when one of the series may get a green light.
“I’m still developing them and seeing who buys, we’ll see,” Campbell said. “You just throw things at the wall and see what sticks.”
Natasha Lindstrom is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Natasha at 412-380-8514, [email protected] or via Twitter .
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