Hayden Panettiere’s ‘Scream VI’ return started with cellphone name

As “Scream” films go, it began with a cellphone name.

But this was a cellphone name Hayden Panettiere really wished.

It wasn’t Ghostface on the road, searching for a kill, however relatively the person behind the long-lasting horror villain himself, “Scream” writer-creator Kevin Williamson. He was calling to influence her to reprise her position in “Scream VI,” the filmmaker advised People on the film’s world premiere Monday.

Panettiere had a starring position within the 2011 movie “Scream 4” as Kirby Reed, a high- schooler in Woodsboro who struggles to outlive amid one other Ghostface bloodbath. At the tip of the film, as she lay in a pool of blood after being stabbed, viewers have been not sure of Kirby’s destiny.

Her character didn’t return in final yr’s “Scream,” sparking additional questions on Kirby. During filming of the fifth movie, Panettiere even known as the manufacturing, asking to return, she mentioned Monday on “Good Morning America.”

“I actually called them … when they were doing ‘Scream 5’ and I was like, ‘Without me?! Wait. Hold on. I might still be alive, and I could come in handy,’” Panettiere mentioned.

However, main as much as the sixth movie, which hits theaters this week, it was the manufacturing crew that got here calling for her. But Williamson had issue monitoring down Panettiere, who had taken day off from performing. She had moved from L.A. to Nashville.

“No one knew where she was, because she had just sort of moved out of L.A.,” Williamson advised People. He was in a position to attain associates in Nashville who have been in a position to shortly join the 2.

“They said, ‘Give me five minutes,’ and in five minutes, I was talking to her by phone,” he mentioned.

Once on the cellphone with Panettiere, Williamson provided up a dialog with “Scream VI” administrators Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett.

“Absolutely, have them call me right away,” the “Heroes” alum advised Williamson.

In “Scream VI,” Panettiere’s Kirby is named the only survivor of the current Woodsboro bloodbath. She is now a particular agent with the FBI who is known as in to assist tackle Ghostface’s new slew of murders in New York City.

Panettiere mentioned she sees similarities between herself and Kirby, Women’s Health reported Monday. After the start of daughter Kaya with retired professional boxer Wladimir Klitschko in 2014, Panettiere struggled with postpartum despair, which she publicly spoke about. She admitted herself to remedy services for her despair and subsequent habit to alcohol and had to surrender custody of her youngster.

“She has that human trauma, and it’s changed her,” Panettiere mentioned about her “Scream” character. “That’s something I can obviously relate to.”

Jenna Ortega and Melissa Barrera, who each starred within the fifth “Scream” movie, may even reprise their roles, together with Courteney Cox. Cox’s Gale Weathers, a reporter and writer, has remained a major character within the franchise since Wes Craven’s unique in 1996.

Neve Campbell, who carried the franchise for 5 films as Sidney Prescott, can be notably absent. Campbell cited a pay dispute as the explanation for her departure. She mentioned that her gender performed an element and that Paramount’s supply “did not equate to the value I have brought to the franchise.”

“As a woman in this business,” she advised People in August, “I think it’s really important for us to be valued and to fight to be valued.”