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David Arquette

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The 'Scream 4' star on working with some of the best in the biz.

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Young Hollywood

I'm Oliver Trena here at the Young Hollywood Studio with this handsome young man. David Arquette, how are you?

David Arquette

Oh. Thank you, Oliver.

Young Hollywood

You're welcome. Well deserved. I think that compliment. Deserved it. But your hands, you're a young handsome man.

David Arquette

I'm not sure about the young part. But let's just go with it. Let's just go with it. I'm young at heart.

Young Hollywood

Young, that's all that matters. You've got to work with so many people, who haven't you worked with that you'd like to work with?

David Arquette

Well, Darren Anowski, just, you know, David Fincher, like amazing directors, so I really want to work with. I got to work with Marlon Brando once. That was a where to go from there.

Young Hollywood

You should have thrown off your shoes and said, "I quit!" That's it. There's absolutely, there's no going anywhere, is there?

David Arquette

Yeah, it was a comedy, and it was a kind of weird movie, but he had this one part where I give him this new truck. I'm like a car salesman. And he's really funny, but his sense of humor is all like old school, like Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers. So he's like, "Listen, what if the kid comes up and he gets on his hands and knees, and I step on his back to give him the truck." And the director was like, "No, no," because, you know, he was like 300 lbs at that point. And I was like, "Yeah! Come on!" Marlon Brando stepping on my back. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, but they didn't let us do it.

Young Hollywood

Shame. Well, you're still here to tell the tale. We might not be if he did. So let's look at the positive aspect. Marlon Brando didn't walk on your back. You have to be that way, right? You've got me on a positive day. Horror movies, how do you think they've changed? Do you think they've got scarier with all the new technology and stuff or is it taking it away a little bit?

David Arquette

Well, you know, I, I love like old scary films where they kind of alluded to certain things, but, you know, the audience is growing, there's stuff for everybody. Um, Scream, then now Scream 4.

Young Hollywood

Yeah. No! You should have seen the look on your face.

David Arquette

15 years it's been. It's really spanned my met my wife on the first one and I lost both my parents during the course of the next two, and and had a baby by the fourth one, so pretty amazing.

Young Hollywood

Wait to see what happens, do you know in this one then?

David Arquette

Yeah, this one. Oh, yeah. Lots of trouble.

Young Hollywood

Yeah. 15 years, you must have been about 12 in the first one then.

David Arquette

Oh, man, you'd think. Just say yes. Just say yes. It's Hollywood. Are you forgetting where we are?

Young Hollywood

I know, see, but I find it hard to lie. I don't like lying and I think there's a lot of lying in Hollywood.

David Arquette

We'll just say you're 25 plus tax then. There you go. And no one knows what state tax you're talking about. It's fine. I'm old and I like it.

Young Hollywood

Okay. Um, and how was it there are a few younger, not just slightly younger, characters on the on the new one. How's it gone? There's a bunch of wriggling around on this new set.

David Arquette

Yeah. Does that mean that I'm not gonna live as long as these two?

Young Hollywood

No. Maybe. Of course not. Just uh, just be careful. Oh my God, did you hear that? I'm gonna be next. I'm also acting in a film called The Cottage, where I play a villain.

Young Hollywood

Okay. That's pretty creepy. Bring out the bad side. Yeah. Fine then. Yeah. Well, I hope the Scream goes amazing because then there's hopefully gonna be a sequels to it. Yeah. Trilogy, right?

David Arquette

That'd be a fun time. I don't know if I'll be a part of it, but I love watching them. I'm always trying to kill him.

Young Hollywood

You can't kill David Arquette.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • David Arquette

    Featured guest, discussing his career

  • Oliver Trena

    Host of the interview

  • Marlon Brando

    Actor David Arquette worked with

  • Darren Aronofsky

    Director David Arquette wants to work with

  • David Fincher

    Director David Arquette wants to work with

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Oliver Trena interviewed David Arquette at the Young Hollywood Studio.
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David Arquette wants to work with directors like Darren Aronofsky and David Fincher.
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David Arquette discussed his involvement in the 'Scream' franchise.
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David Arquette has been involved with the 'Scream' franchise for 15 years.
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