In a recent interview for Jack Championfuture role in James CameronX Avatar: Path of WaterCollider Perry Nemiroff immediately mentioned Scream 6, which Champion joined as a new character, listed only as Evan. With the young actor making his debut in the horror franchise next year alongside Ghostface, it seems appropriate to ask him how about taking that step into such an established and beloved movie genre.
After Cameron’s 13-year-old sequel was released this month, Collider was able to talk to several actors, one of whom was Champion, who played Spider in Avatar 2. While the Na’vi have certainly become a hot topic of late, we were curious about how Champion feels about stepping into a franchise that predates Pandora by about the same amount of time it took for the sequel to release. We’re talking about the 1996 metakino slasher, screamstarring Neve Campbell. As it turned out, he is very excited, and although he joined a solid cast and crew, when we asked which of the existing screamX was his favourite, Champion wasted no time in saying, “First. Light.”
When the director Wes Craven came out scream for the world of the mid-nineties, he was a game changer in how his audiences explored the genre. Like the hockey masks and overalls of the 70s and 80s, Ghostface donned a simple, cheap Halloween costume and wreaked havoc on a group of teenagers. Unlike its predecessors, Ghostface broke the rules and kept viewers guessing, and continued to do so with every sequel. In addition to being one of the pillars of creepy-scary films, Champion is very eager to join because he is a fan himself, saying:
“Well I’m massive scream fan too. So jumping into scream was, I mean, I think what excited me was exactly that scream was my favorite horror slasher genre.”
In 2022, the directorial duo Radio Silence Matt Bettinelli-Opin as well as Tyler Gillette (Ready or Not) took over the franchise after Craven’s last entry in 2011, Scream 4, which essentially passed the series on to a new generation but kept the focus on Sidney Prescott of Campbell and Co. AT Scream 5the Bettinelli-Aupin and Gillet film cleverly moved Ghostface into the new group, passing on the nightmare to others. Melissa BarreraSam Carpenter and her sister TaraJenna Ortega) while maintaining close ties to legacy characters.
Champion joins a group of new faces, in addition to Scream 5survivors Jasmine Savoy Brown as well as Mason Goodingthis includes Samara weaving, Dermot Mulroney, Henry Czerny, Liana Liberato, Tony Revolori, and more. If you’re wondering where you could see Champion, he had a cameo in Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame and lowered his toes in horror Night babysitterbut his breakthrough will definitely be in Avatar: Path of Water and a planned three subsequent sequels.
It remains to be seen if the Champion’s character, Evan, will make it to the seventh installment, but we can’t wait to find out when. Scream 6 will be released in theaters on March 10, 2023. To find out more, check out our cast interviews. Scream 5 below:
Source: Collider
