After astir 25 years, Anna Faris‘ return to nan Scary Movie franchise called for a characteristic update that reflected nan times.
In Scary Movie 6, now successful theaters, Faris explained that she played Cindy Campbell arsenic a “classic MAGA” type, noting she moreover made a Melania Trump joke that yet sewage trim from nan movie.
“I was ever pushing for Cindy to beryllium classical MAGA rabbit hole,” she told Dexerto. “The benignant of personification that you saw extracurricular of nan Walmart during quarantine, that was raising immoderate benignant of crazy ass fuss.”
Faris continued, “There was a infinitesimal wherever I’m getting conscionable wasted, conscionable truthful drunk—I’m successful my truck, of course, and I look into nan rearview reflector and I say, ‘Be best, Cindy Campbell. Be best.’ That didn’t make it, but I liked my small winking there.”
The FLOTUS launched her ‘Be Best’ run successful 2018 to combat cyberbullying, which was mostly scrutinized astatine nan time, fixed Donald Trump’s notorious online behavior.
“You know, what are you gonna do? You gonna beryllium huffy astatine Cindy?” joked Faris. “I’m successful a movie that is genuinely nan astir violative movie ever made, and I’m nan lead of it. And I participate successful violative ideas. I deliberation I tin benignant of do anything. It liberated me.”
After her breakout capacity arsenic parody last woman Cindy Campbell successful nan Wayans Brothers’ Scary Movie (2000), she reunites pinch Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans and Regina Hall successful Scary Movie 6. Although Faris returned for Scary Movie 2 (2001), Scary Movie 3 (2003) and Scary Movie 4 (2006), she sat retired 2013’s Scary Movie 5, which starred Ashley Tisdale.