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During a surprise appearance at Cinespia\u2019s Halloween party screening of Scream, star Matthew Lillard slammed ICE and advocated for the crowd to vote and \u201clead with love.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFuck ICE,\u201d he said on stage to huge audience cheers<\/a>. \u201cIn this time, in this city, we need to lead with love. Do not forget that shit in this moment \u2014 not to be political, but to be political as shit.\u201d<\/p>\n More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n He also urged those in attendance at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery to vote\u00a0Yes on Proposition 50, a ballot initiative that would redraw California\u2019s congressional districts to cancel out the five extra GOP seats created in Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have to vote. If you don\u2019t vote, we are going down, so it\u2019s on us. And if you don\u2019t like that, I\u2019m so not sorry,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n Lillard is perhaps known for portraying Stu Macher \u2014 one-half of the horror-obsessive-turned-serial-killing duo, alongside Skeet Ulrich\u2019s Billy Loomis \u2014 in the 1996 original, which has since spawned a decades-long franchise. The razor-sharp slasher, which leans into and subverts genre tropes, also stars Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, Rose McGowan, Courtney Cox, Jamie Kennedy and David Arquette, among others.<\/p>\n The Scooby-Doo alum is returning to the franchise<\/a> for Spyglass\/Paramount\u2019s\u00a0Scream 7<\/a> (releasing Feb. 27), Deadline exclusively announced early this year. It\u2019s currently unknown how exactly he makes his character reprisal, as Stu seemed to have died after Sidney (Campbell) dropped a TV on his head. And that\u2019s not even mentioning the stab wounds he and Billy traded to make it look like they were victims of Ghostface.<\/p>\n Lillard will appear alongside fellow legacy cast members Campbell and Cox as well as Scott Foley, Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown, alongside newcomers Isabel May, Celeste O\u2019Connor, Asa Germann, Mckenna Grace, Sam Rechner, Anna Camp, Joel McHale and Mark Consuelos. Both Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega were originally set to return as their on-screen sister duo; however, the former was unceremoniously dropped from the project\u00a0after calling for a ceasefire in Gaza<\/a>, and the latter walked away from the project shortly thereafter both as a form of solidarity and because it \u201cwas all kind of falling apart\u201d<\/a> creatively.<\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n