Anna Faris has opened up about the anxiety that plagued her during the making of the original. scary movie movies, admitting that she spent much of her time hiding and hoping no one would notice her, convinced she was about to lose her job.
“I remember being very afraid of being fired because I didn’t have any work behind me. I didn’t even have an agent,” says the 49-year-old actress and comedian. PEOPLE.
scary movieReleased in 2000, it was her first major film role, and she says she was “so quiet and so intimidated in those first two movies,” spending her time on set hanging back rather than interacting with her co-stars.
Things began to change with the third installment in 2003.
“For me, I felt like I had to pay more attention. I became more involved. I felt comfortable chatting and joking and doing what normal people do instead of just hiding in a corner, hoping no one notices me,” she says.
More than two decades later, Faris returns as Cindy Campbell in scary movie 6, and the experience of returning couldn’t feel more different.
When she got the call, she was “shocked and immediately excited.”
“I couldn’t believe there was a world where I would feel so good doing scary movienot just good, but fantastic,” he says.
The reunion has also given her the opportunity to do something she’s never done properly before: thank the Wayans brothers for giving her a chance all those years ago.
Marlon, Shawn and Keenen Ivory Wayans wrote, created and produced the original films.
“It’s kind of healing in the sense that we have to get back together again. That’s, for me, a personal celebration because I have to thank them. I’ve never thanked them properly,” he says.
“I felt like the Wayans brothers were choosing me. This time, I had to thank them and feel like they weren’t going to fire me.”
