A scene from Wes Craven's New Nightmare 1994
Heather Langenkamp

If Freddy's loose, I mean, in your script, where's he going to go? Another age? Another form?

Wes Craven

That's not what the dreams say he's doing.

Heather Langenkamp

Then what is he doing?

Wes Craven

Well, see, he's gotten used to being Freddy now. And kinda likes it here in our time and space, too. So...he's trying to cross over, from film into our reality.

Heather Langenkamp

Isn't there anyone that can stop him?

Wes Craven

Interestingly enough, in the dreams there is one person. A gatekeeper, so to speak. Someone Freddy's got to get by before he can enter our world. [looks at her] It's you, Heather.

Heather Langenkamp

Me? Why me?

Wes Craven

Dramatically speaking it makes perfect sense. You played Nancy, after all, the first to humiliate and defeat him.

Heather Langenkamp

That was Nancy, not me!

Wes Craven

But it was you that gave Nancy her strength. So to get out he has to come through you. And it's inevitable that he'll hit you at your most vulnerable points...The way to stop him is to make another movie. And I swear to you I'll stay at my computer and keep writing until I finish the script. But when that time comes...You're gonna have to make a choice.

Heather Langenkamp

Choice? What kind of choice?

Wes Craven

Whether or not you will be willing to play Nancy one last time.

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