Anna Faris has opened up about the anxiety that plagued her while making the original film. Horror movie films, admitting that she spent most of her time hiding and hoping no one would notice her, convinced she was about to lose her job.
“I remember being so 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.
Horror moviereleased in 2000, was her first major film role, and she says she was “so quiet and so intimidated in those first two films”, spending her time on set hanging back rather than engaging with her castmates.
Things started to change with the third installment in 2003.
“For me, it felt like I had to pay more attention. I was able to get more involved. I felt comfortable chatting and joking and doing what normal people do instead of just hiding in a corner, hoping no one will notice me,” she says.
More than two decades later, Faris returns as Cindy Campbell in Horror movie 6, and the return experience couldn’t be more different.
When she received the call, she was “shocked and immediately elated.”
“I couldn’t believe there was a world in which I would feel so good doing Horror movienot just good, but great,” she says.
The reunion also gave her the chance to do something she’d never done properly before, thank the Wayans brothers for taking a chance on her all those years ago.
Marlon, Shawn and Keenen Ivory Wayans wrote, created and produced the original films.
“It’s a bit of a healing in the sense that we can be together again. It’s, for me, a personal celebration because I have to thank them. I’ve never thanked them properly,” she said.
“It was like the Wayans brothers had chosen me. This time I was able to thank them and I felt like I wasn’t going to get fired.”
