Matthew Lillard is thrilled to be returning to the Scream franchise nearly 30 years after he originated the role of Stu Macher. "I was giddy. I was freaking out," Lillard, 55, told Us Weekly exclusively on Thursday, September 18, of getting the call to join the cast of Scream 7 while promoting his partnership with Exact Sciences' Cologuard test. "I had been sort of tongue-in-cheek pushing the fact that Stu's still alive, he went to prison. Like, I'll go get superhero jacked like [I've] been in prison for the last 20 years.