Courteney Cox convinced Wes Craven to cast her

She became globally famous thanks to her role as Monica Geller in ‘Friends’, but Courteney Cox was keen to show the world that she had more range and so begged director Wes Craven to cast her in ‘Scream’ as newshound Gale Weathers.

Cox wrote a letter to the filmmaker saying she wanted to play a “b****”, and said portraying Weathers would be “a nice surprise” for fans of ‘Friends’ and ‘Family Ties’.

She recalled: “[I] thought it would be a nice surprise to have me play such a calculated character after being on ‘Friends’ and ‘Family Ties’, but I had to convince Wes.

“So, I wrote him a letter and assured him that being a b**** wouldn’t be a stretch at all.”