Willa Fitzgerald was fairly contemporary into her profession when she landed the main position of Emma Duval on MTV’s sequence adaptation of Wes Craven’s beloved movie franchise, Scream. Her greatest half up till that second was as a recurring member of the Season 6 forged of USA Network’s Royal Pains, however Scream was one thing else completely. For two seasons, she led the forged via the ups and downs of drama, lies, deceit, and homicide in the tiny city of Lakewood, Colorado and, collectively, the group tried to unmask the Lakewood Slasher.

The sequence gained fairly a following, which is why, after two seasons, it got here as a shock to followers when it was introduced that the third season would journey a very totally different route. Picking up the story and shifting it throughout the nation, Season 3 of Scream happened in Atlanta, Georgia and adopted a brand new main character, RJ Cyler’s Deion Elliot. Not solely had been audiences left perplexed by the sudden change, however so was Fitzgerald. Recently stopping by Collider Ladies Night to talk with Perri Nemiroff, Fitzgerald remembers the seemingly common day when she bought the telephone name that modified her life. She defined:

“It’s a kind of humorous issues the place I sort of nonetheless don’t know what occurred. I keep in mind it was the Spring of 2017, and all of us thought we had been doing Season 3 —
we had all been informed we had been doing Season 3.
Then I keep in mind I used to be sitting in a espresso store close to Orchard Street in New York ready to go to the eye physician or one thing, and I bought a name from my workforce, they usually had been like, ‘So, they’re really not utilizing any of the forged. They’re recasting the whole factor.’
I keep in mind being sort of devastated
and likewise, at the similar time, being like, ‘Okay.’ It was a tough present in a variety of methods, and we had been actually below a variety of strain each season. It was sort of a strain cooker.”

Fizgerald’s World “Exploded” After ‘Scream’ Ended

Even although Scream was over, Fitzgerald had realized a lot from her main position in the huge manufacturing that she says she felt okay about her future. At that point, the actress was in her early 20s and felt like the world was her oyster, telling Nemiroff:

“I used to be additionally at that second in my profession the place
I used to be excited
, fortunately, for a brand new path and a brand new sort of regular for what my 12 months appeared like. Time strikes a lot slower while you’re in your early 20s, and I used to be
able to have some change
. Then what occurred subsequent was I needed to go to Ireland and do

Little Women

. Suddenly,
my world exploded on this method
. So I used to be in a short time proved proper in a way of being like, ‘Oh, what’s the subsequent chapter?’ But yeah, it was wild.”

All three seasons of Scream can be found for buy on Prime Video. You can watch Fitzgerald’s full episode of Collider Ladies Night under.

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