An actor behind the Ghostface masks finally talks spoilers.

Scream 7 killer speaks: Star unpacks the big Ghostface reveal

An actor behind the Ghostface masks finally talks spoilers.

By Nick Romano

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March 4, 2026 4:23 p.m. ET

'Scream 7' killer speaks! Star unpacks the big Ghostface reveal. Credit:

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**This article contains major spoilers from *Scream 7*. **

When Ethan Embry was invited to join *Scream 7*, one of the easier yeses of his career, he was given a version of the script with a missing third act. The last thing he remembers reading was the second act bar scene.

Mindy (Jasmin Savoy Brown) and Chad Meeks-Martin (Mason Gooding) break the Pine Grove town curfew to gather Tatum Evans (Isabel May) and the suspects within her friend group — bestie Chloe (Celeste O'Connor), boyfriend Ben (Sam Rechner), and "creepy" *Stab* fan Lucas (Asa Germann). The Ghostface killer attacks them, leaving two dead, including Lucas, impaled on a sharp beer tap handle.

From there, the actor pieced together that there was more for him to do. "The days in the deal memo that they said I was gonna work didn't make sense with the amount of work in the script I was given," he tells **. "So I was like, 'There's stuff missing that I'm a part of.' That's all I knew."

Embry joined the cast as Marcos Davis, a supervising caretaker at the nearby Fallbrook psych hospital. Known for films like *Empire Records* (1995), *Can't Hardly Wait* (1998), and *Sweet Home Alabama* (2002), the actor knew he would film a scene at the facility in which Sidney Evans (Neve Campbell) and Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) investigate the fate of Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard).

Ethan Embry's Marco Davis in 'Scream 7'.

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"I wasn't gonna be presumptuous. I had suspicions," Embry continues of the role. "I was like, 'It's possible,' but I didn't ask any questions, didn't wanna rock any boat."

Then he walked into the wardrobe fitting and saw two costumes ready for him to try on: one was the white Fallbrook uniform, the other was a Ghostface getup. "I was like, 'You're kidding me?'" Embry recalls. "And the costume supervisor was like, 'You didn't know?!' I had no idea."

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Even after filming the big ending sequence with Anna Camp as the two surviving Ghostface killers (out of three), Embry didn't fully realize the truth of his role until the cast screening in Los Angeles two weeks before the film's release. He calls it "a protectionist practice"; he assumed writer/director Kevin Williamson shot multiple alternate endings with various other cast members. "Do not assume anything" became Embry's internal mantra.

Since he's based in Atlanta, he asked his manager to attend the early preview with the cast when it came time, at which point his rep relayed the confirmation he long suspected but never embraced. "I didn't wanna believe it until it was real, you know?" he says. "'Cause it's huge. Over Halloween, I'm sitting here at the house trick or treating, and it's crazy how many little Ghostface kids there are. Like, dozens!"

Ghostface in 'Scream 7'.

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When shooting the big reveal on set in Atlanta, Embry remembers Camp came to play. The *Pitch Perfect* alum played Jessica, Sidney's next-door neighbor in Pine Grove, and the mother of Lucas — Embry likes to think she wasn't the one to actually kill her own kid, but you never know. The two actors fed off each other and embraced the crazy.

"Weirdly, I need to remind myself that my normal is a lot weirder than most people's normal," he admits. Embry remembers going a little too dramatic with one of his one-liners, only for Williamson to reel him back. He remembers another instance when he took off the mask: "I did one where I did a lot more of a hair whip, and then I did one subdued. There is a subtle head whip that they went with, but my hair wasn't as long as it is right now, so maybe it didn't play as good. I love the way I pay my mortgage, man. I'm so lucky."

Sitting on the floor of his Atlanta home with his dog, Cedar, a rescue he found in Tecate, Mexico, Embry evokes genuine gratitude and disbelief, even days after *Scream 7* opened in theaters. Thirty years ago, he once auditioned for Wes Craven's original *Scream* and didn't get the part, a story told multiple times over the years.

Ethan Embry at the 'Scream 7' premiere in Los Angeles.

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Embry doesn't fully remember which role he tried out for, but if he had to guess, it would be Randy Meeks, the horror-movie expert played by Jamie Kennedy, and the uncle of Mindy and Chad. "It so sticks out in my mind the rules of the horror movies and what certain characters represent in them," he says.

Craven, at the time, didn't offer positive feedback, but now three decades later, Williamson, who wrote the screenplay for that original movie and directed *Scream 7*, brought Embry back as a masked killer. The actor still isn't sure how it all happened, and he didn't speak about his history with the franchise to the filmmaker. Embry just went into the production with the goal of maintaining a low profile: "Ask as little questions as possible," he says, "show up as quickly as you can, be 15 minutes early, no boat rocking."

Playing a Ghostface, of course, makes that plan difficult.**

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