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Carmen Electra tells EW about her surprise cameo in the new Scary Movie.
“It was so much fun and it was just a whirlwind,” Electra says of her Scary Movie appearance alongside a “huge, amazing actress” whose identity she’s keeping under wraps.
Electra appeared in the opening scene of the original Scary Movie, and returned for 2006’s Scary Movie 4.
Carmen Electra is in on the joke, again.
The Baywatch bombshell memorably opened 2000’s Scary Moviefranchise kickstarter, riffing on Drew Barrymore’s legendary role in the cold open of the Scream franchise. Unlike most actors who appeared for a single scene or sequence, or even turned up to deliver a single joke, Electra returned to the fold in 2006’s Scary Movie 4 — which starred two of the franchise’s original core four, Anna Faris and Regina Hall (co-creators Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans starred in the first two and rejoin the mix with this new movie).
Until now.
Scary Moviehas positioned itself over the culture again, like the mothership in Independence Day, ready to rain parodic destruction down on the last 25 years in horror. And Electra secured her ticket for the family reunion, appearing in a memorable scene that she’d prefer to keep largely under wraps, so audiences can experience maximal jolts of shock and awe at the cavalcade of O.G. cameos. The actress and model sat down with Entertainment Weekly ahead of the new movie’s theatrical release to tease just how she got involved, why the offer was met with an instant yes, and what she loves so much about a Wayans production.
Carmen Electra in ‘Scary Movie’ in 2000
Credit: Dimension Films
“I had just flown home from another job” when she got the offer, Electra recalls. “I said yes right away. We got back on a plane and flew to Atlanta and shot at Tyler Perry Studios. It was just really so exciting.” What excites Electra most is the “huge, amazing actress” who she shares her uproarious scene with. “I can’t say her name… but to get to work with her was amazing. And to just be with the Wayans again. I was in the fourth Scary Movie too, and even when we were on 4, I kept saying, ‘I really miss the Wayans.’ I think the Wayans are the best.”
Electra doesn’t know exactly how her name came up for the new film, the Wayans’ first Scary Movie in 25 years. But she has a couple theories. “A little bird chirped in my ear and said that they were looking for a Carmen Electra type to play the role, and someone at Paramount said, ‘Why don’t we just get her?’ And they were like, ‘Yeah, let’s get her!'”
The other involves an interview Electra gave to TMZin February. “It pretty much went viral, where I was walking out of a party and they kept asking me [about Scary Movie] and I said, ‘Well, you know, the Wayans are the best. So if the Wayans are coming back, you never know if I’m going to be in it!’ At that time, when they interviewed me, there was no contact. And the next thing you know, I’m getting a call.”
Marlon Wayans confirmed to EW that the production launched and wrapped in Atlanta in 2025, but reshoots and additional photography to add fresh parodies (like the one for Michael, starring Kenan Thompson) kept the cameras rolling well through this spring. In addition to Hall, Faris, the Wayans, and Electra, the new Scary Movie, which follows directly from the original and skips all the sequels, brings back a number of that film’s stars, including Cheri Oteri, Dave Sheridan, Chris Elliott, and Lochlyn Munro.
Electra described the new shoot as “so much fun, and it was just a whirlwind. It was so exciting.” It reminded her most of the first Scary Movie, which she remembers fondly. “When we shot the first one, we had no idea how well it would do. It was the number one movie around the world. We toured all over Europe. For me, it was the first time being in a movie at number one, and it was such a fun, good feeling,” she says. “I remember sneaking into a movie theater and sitting in the very back row and just listening to everyone scream during my scene. Everyone was standing up, like, ‘Yay!’ People just loved it. They loved my scene, and they loved the movie in general. I was like, ‘Oh my God, is this really happening?'”
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By 2000, Electra was already a star. She’d signed a record deal with Prince and put out a self-titled album in 1993, posed twice for Playboy, and had appeared on Baywatch. But her film career was still in its infancy. She remembers shooting the Italian comedy Vacanze di Natale 2000 (Christmas Vacation 2000) “in the mountains of Italy — Cortina, actually. I wasn’t finished shooting, but I begged when [the Wayans] called, because I auditioned for the first one, and I guess I didn’t get it right away. Some other people went ahead and shot for it and the Wayans were like, ‘No, no, it’s Carmen.’ They called at the last minute and I flew.”
Traveling immediately from Italy to Canada, Electra says she’s “basically got in that outfit, stripped down, ran through the sprinkler — that was my idea to do the head roll. I just did it. I was in the sprinkler and I just went for it. That was all me. But Keenen [Ivory Wayans] directed the first one and I remember him saying, ‘We’re gonna go piece by piece and you’re gonna nail it.’ And I did, I killed it.”
Carmen Electra in ‘Scary Movie 4’
Credit: Dimension Films
Electra espouses a similar opinion to Faris and Hall: Scary Movie got along okay without the Wayans, but it’s great to have them back.
“They just have that touch, I like to call it the Wayans Touch,” she says. “They’re just funny, and they’re edgy, and they go the extra mile, and that’s what makes it so great. That’s what put [the first Scary Movie] out there above everything else, because they went for it. And they did it again now, on the new one.”
Scary Movie is now playing in theaters.
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