I Just Learned Freddy Krueger Actor Robert Englund Used To Babysit Drew Barrymore, And Might Have Helped Her Get That Role In "Scream"

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Modern horror wouldn’t be what it is today without Wes Craven. He has made some of the best slasher horror movies of all time, and that helped push the boundaries of the genre. Little did I know, the director from Cleveland, Ohio, created quite a network of stars across these iconic films. For example, Freddy Krueger actor Robert Englund used to babysit Drew Barrymore, who would go on to play "Scream’s" doomed Casey Becker, and the story the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" actor told us about this is incredible.  Two of the stars of the 1984 classic, Heather Langenkamp and Robert Englund, appeared on CinemaBlend’s podcast, "ReelBlend," to talk about everything Craven-related -- from how he was as a director, theories, sequels, and even other Craven hits, like "Scream." During the conversation, Englund recounted witnessing a meeting between Craven and Barrymore while out to dinner.

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00:00I was having dinner on Melrose in a trendy new restaurant and I looked over and there was

00:05Mariana, Magdalena, Wes Craven and Drew Barrymore in her little short bob. I used to babysit Drew

00:12Barrymore when she was a child. And I knew her mother. I had an actress friend who was best

00:19friends with her mother. And so I knew that and I hadn't seen Drew since a screening of one of her

00:28movies, Poison Ivy or something. And so I just went by the table on the way out to give a hug

00:34to Marianne and a hug to Wes and to Drew. And I made a joke. I just said, you know,

00:41got to use her. You know, I didn't know about Scream. I just met. They were obviously taking

00:47a meeting and I use it. You know, she's great. And Drew got up and gave me a little hug and

00:51that was it. But yeah, I kind of knew they were going to play with it. I heard that.

00:56And, you know, thank goodness, because the success of Scream one sent audiences back to

01:02reevaluate Wes Craven's new nightmare, part seven. And with what was easy for them to understand

01:11about the meta deconstructed nature of the Scream movies, movies about us, the viewer with us,

01:18the viewer in them. We know what, you know, and we know that, you know, that we know how you do

01:24this stuff, all the tropes and everything. They went back to see Wes's nightmare seven. And we

01:30became by the time we were out on DVD, we became huge because the Scream movie had taught people

01:38how to see nightmare seven.

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