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,

00:02and I looked over, and there was Marianna, Magdalena,

00:07Wes Craven, and Drew Barrymore in her little short Bob.

00:10I used to babysit Drew Barrymore when she was a child.

00:14And I knew her mother.

00:17I had an actress friend who was best friends with her mother,

00:21and so I knew that, and I hadn't seen Drew since a screening

00:25of one of her movies, Poison Ivy or something.

00:30And so I just went by the table on the way out to give a hug to Marianne

00:35and a hug to Wes and to Drew, and I made a joke.

00:40I just said, you know, got to use her.

00:42I didn't know about Scream.

00:44I just meant they were obviously taking a meeting to use it.

00:48You know, she's great.

00:49And Drew got up and gave me a little hug, and that was it.

00:52But, yeah, I kind of knew they were going to play with it.

00:55I heard that.

00:55And, you know, thank goodness, because the success of Scream 1

00:59sent audiences back to reevaluate Wes Craven's new nightmare, Part 7,

01:06and with what was easy for them to understand about the meta-deconstructed nature

01:13of the Scream movies, movies about us, the viewer, with us, the viewer, in them.

01:19We know what you know, and we know that you know, that we know how you do this stuff,

01:25all the tropes and everything.

01:27They went back to see Wes's Nightmare 7, and we became, by the time we were out on DVD,

01:33we became huge because the Scream movie had taught people how to see Nightmare 7.

01:41I thank you very much for sharing.

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