{"id":236982,"date":"2026-04-27T09:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/matthew-lillard-says-nostalgia-is-why-hollywood-keeps-hiring-him\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:17:17","slug":"matthew-lillard-says-nostalgia-is-why-hollywood-keeps-hiring-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/matthew-lillard-says-nostalgia-is-why-hollywood-keeps-hiring-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Lillard Says Nostalgia Is Why Hollywood Keeps Hiring Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Matthew Lillard Says Nostalgia Is &#8216;One of the Reasons&#8217; Hollywood Is &#8216;Hiring Me Again&#8217;: &#8216;I Don&#8217;t Think Anyone Really Likes Me. They Just Miss the Old Times&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VEx2T6gEbx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/VEx2T6gEbx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/2048455047755821262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 26, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  async src=&#8221;https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js<\/a>&#8221; charset=&#8221;utf-8&#8243;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i><b>Scooby-Doo<\/b><\/i> one and two are more popular now than they ever were when they came out. So I do think there\u2019s a weird nostalgia thing happening in our industry and in the zeitgeist because I think that people are longing for ye olde times,\u201d Lillard said. \u201cI think that\u2019s one of the reasons I\u2019m having this moment to be honest, is because I was identified in that moment, so people are hiring me again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He later added with a laugh, \u201cI think that\u2019s why I\u2019m working. I don\u2019t think anyone really likes me. They just miss the old times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lillard recently returned to the <b><i>Scream<\/i><\/b> franchise with a cameo as an AI version of his iconic character. <\/p>\n<p><i>Do you agree ONTD?<\/i> *posted again with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/2048455047755821262\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">source<\/a>* <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132266779.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Lillard Says Nostalgia Is &#8216;One of the Reasons&#8217; Hollywood Is &#8216;Hiring Me Again&#8217;: &#8216;I Don&#8217;t Think Anyone Really Likes Me. They Just Miss the Old Times&#8217; https:\/\/t.co\/VEx2T6gEbx \u2014 Variety (@Variety) April 26, 2026 async src=&#8221;https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&#8221; charset=&#8221;utf-8&#8243;&gt; \u201cScooby-Doo one and two are more popular now than they ever were when they came out. So I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-236982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}