“This is just — I can’t go on,” he joked, squirming in his seat. “This is too painful.”
Arquette explained that although the two spent much of the first Scream film flirting and falling for each other, the declining health of his mother during the production of Scream 2 left him a wreck and their relationship rocky.
“Wes [Craven] sat me down and said, ‘David, she really likes you,'” the Never Been Kissed actor recalled. “‘Just get your act together.'”
While the original made a household name of Arquette, he says people often confuse him for Dave Sheridan’s Doofy, the Scary Movie spoof role of Arquette’s Deputy Dewey.
“I don’t make love to vacuum cleaners,” he said pointedly with a laugh.
