David Arquette RECALLS How Wes Craven Encouraged Him To Date Courteney Cox: He Had A Real Impact

Wes Craven’s Scream protagonists Dewey Riley and Gale Weathers, performed by David Arquette and Courteney Cox, fell in love onscreen. And, in line with Arquette, 50, the late director had an element within the actor’s off-screen reference to Cox.

“Wes had an actual affect,” Arquette mentioned as per PEOPLE. “[He was] like, ‘David, you already know she likes you and it's best to actually get your stuff collectively.’ He gave me an actual man-to-man speak and that had an affect on the course of my life.” Arquette and Cox married in June 1999, greater than two years after the unique Scream movie was launched in theatres. They welcomed their daughter Coco in June 2004 and introduced their divorce six months later, six months earlier than the discharge of the third Scream sequel. Arquette and Cox divorced in 2013. Nevertheless, their on-screen romance had its ups and downs as properly.

Each performers, together with unique Scream actress Neve Campbell, will now reprise their roles within the upcoming fifth installment, named Scream. “I used to be simply actually excited to play a personality that was actually, I suppose, bitchy and excessive and but grounded in some methods,” Cox, 57, says of daring reporter Gale. “As a result of Monica’s so candy.” Arquette additionally recollects being ecstatic when he first met Cox. “I used to be a fan of hers,” he says, including that “everybody was extremely well mannered, so it was a stunning expertise” with the remainder of the group

In the meantime, Arquette married producer Christina McLarty in 2015, and the couple has two kids. He considers himself “very blessed” to be showing in one other Scream movie greater than 25 years after the unique one was launched.

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