Were stu and billy gay
If you’re still wondering about those homoerotic undertones 25 years after Billy Loomis and Stu Macher terrorized Woodsboro in Wes Craven’s “Scream,” you’ve been on the right track all along.
Ahead of the novel “Scream,” out Friday, openly gay screenwriter of the first “Scream," Kevin Williamson, has confirmed that Billy (Skeet Ulrich) and Stu (Matthew Lillard), who are thought to be queer by many LGBTQ+ fan theorists, were based on infamous mass murderers Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. and Richard Albert Loeb, both of whom reportedly admitted they were gay and in a relationship.
In May , Leopold and Loeb, who’ve been called the “LGBTQ+ prototype for Bonnie and Clyde,” killed year-old Bobby Franks as an act of intellectual superiority. It’s been called the “perfect crime,” one that has influenced Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rope” as well as the crime thriller “Murder by Numbers.” Both are noted for their homoeroticism.
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Scream fans have long believed that Billy and Stu had repressed feelings for each other.
Neve Campbell has revealed whether or not she agrees with theories that Billy and Stu were gay in the original Scream film.
Ever since Scream first came out in , there hold been multiple fan theories that Billy and Stu had romantic feelings for each other. At the end of the movie, we find out that Stu helped Billy eliminate Sidney's mother and frame Cotton Weary for her murder. We also study that they've been adj together as Ghostface and are behind all the deaths in the movie.
Based on how close they are, fans have often wondered if Billy and Stu were secretly in love with each other. Randy even calls Billy a "homo repressed momma's boy" in Scream 2. Now, Neve Campbell has responded to the theories.
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With a fifth chapter of “Scream” due in theaters this week, Neve Campbell is taking time to address some fan theories about the iconic horror franchise.
Speaking to Pride Source in a video interview released Monday, the actor touched on the rumor that Billy (played by Skeet Ulrich) and Stu (Matthew Lillard), the killers in the original movie, were actually a closeted gay couple.
“It’s very much a possibility, and now that Kevin’s out and talking more about that, I would imagine that’s a large part of his thinking,” Campbell said, referring to “Scream” screenwriter Kevin Williamson.
Pressed for clarification, Campbell explained that it was plausible that Billy and Stu were “pretty confused guys” who were driven to commit murder because of self-hatred.
“If I were to theorize, I would say that there was perhaps some confusion with them,” she said, “and that maybe some of their anger comes from not being allowed to be who they want to be, if you wanna go there.”
Watch a clip of Neve Campbell’s Pride Source interview below.
Williamson, who is gay, also le
Scream: The Real Life Murderers Billy & Stu Were Based On
Screamtakes influence from multiple sources, but the dynamic between antagonists Billy and Stu in the franchise's first installment is based on the relationship between real-life murderers. The subtle homoeroticism between the killers in Scream is stated by the openly LGBTQ+ screenwriter Kevin Williamson to be heavily influenced by Leopold and Loeb. The Thrill Killers provided much of the nuance in Billy and Stu's twisted chemistry.
The slasher franchise Scream is mainly inspired by The Gainesville Ripper. The Ripper, otherwise known as Daniel Harold Rolling, killed 5 students in Gainesville, Florida in the late s. Scream screenwriter Kevin Williamson confirmed in an interview that Billy and Stu, however, are based specifically on Leopold and Loeb. One of the infamous lawyer Clarence Darrow's most notorious court cases is his defense of two young boys from Chicago who murdered a fourteen-year-old child for the thrill of it. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb's queer relationship was exposed during their trial in an