{"id":2304259,"date":"2026-02-28T01:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2304259"},"modified":"2026-02-28T01:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:14:21","slug":"mason-gooding-on-reluctance-to-embrace-scream-king-moniker-learning-to-lead-with-grace-on-james-van-der-beeks-final-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mason-gooding-on-reluctance-to-embrace-scream-king-moniker-learning-to-lead-with-grace-on-james-van-der-beeks-final-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Mason Gooding On Reluctance To Embrace \u2018Scream King\u2019 Moniker, Learning To \u201cLead With Grace\u201d On James Van Der Beek\u2019s Final Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">With his recent performance in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000777\/\">Gregg Araki<\/a>\u2019s hit Sundance romp <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32332915\/\">I Want Your Sex<\/a> and his return to the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0117571\/\">Scream<\/a> franchise this weekend, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2864252\/\">Mason Gooding<\/a>\u2019s busy onscreen year is just getting started.<\/p>\n<p>Following Wednesday\u2019s world premiere of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27047903\/\">Scream 7<\/a>, now playing in theaters, the actor told Deadline that despite reprising his role as Chad Meeks-Martin and starring in last year\u2019s V-Day slasher <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32558992\/\">Heart Eyes<\/a>, the idea of being considered a \u2018Scream King\u2019 \u201cstresses me out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up with a certain affinity for horror and genre storytelling, and I feel like my natural proclivity to love stories, the Trojan horse sentimentality and themes through bombast and spectacle, is kind of what compels me as an audience member,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd then as an artist, I feel like it allows certain stories that we tell as people to kind of transcend time or epoch and kind of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his recent performance in Gregg Araki\u2019s hit Sundance romp I Want Your Sex and his return to the Scream franchise this weekend, Mason Gooding\u2019s busy onscreen year is just getting started. 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