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Robert Englund is just not ready for prime time again.
The actor will forever be tied to the Freddy Krueger character he played in eight “Nightmare on Elm Street” films, but he doesn’t foresee himself scaring the world again.
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“I’m too old and thick to play Freddy now,” he told Variety to promote the “Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story” documentary. “I just can’t do fight scenes for more than one take anymore, I’ve got a bad neck and bad back and arthritis in my right wrist. So I have to hang it up.”
Robert, however, would “love” a cameo should Freddy get remade. And, he has an idea about how to resurrect the “Nightmare on Elm Street” films in modern times.
“You’d have to deal with technology and culture,” he says. “For instance, if one of the girls was an influencer, it would be interesting for Freddy to somehow haunt her subconscious and manifest himself, perhaps exploit everybody that followed her.”
While the Freddy Krueger character is known (and feared,) Robert isn’t letting his famed character’s notoriety go to his head.
“I know who icons are,” he said. “I’m not an icon. Maybe Freddy Krueger is, but I’m not. I’m just a character actor, a utility actor who’s been very lucky.”
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Back when Robert played the terrifying child killer from 1984 to 2003, the horror genre wasn’t as respected as it is today.
“I felt there was a cultural shift that people recognized,” he says. “Horror is the punk rock of cinema in its own way. There was a recognition of pulp as a great ingredient in our cultural world. There’s room for pulp and melodrama, and the door opened wider for horror.”
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