Hayden Panettiere on Returning to the Screen With 'Scream VI' and Kirby's Fate in 'Scream 4' (Exclusive)
etonline.com, Hayden Panettiere has officially returned to the slasher franchise with. This time around, Kirby is an FBI agent who gets called in from Atlanta to help the authorities after Ghostface starts terrorizing New York City.
While speaking with ET's Rachel Smith, the 33-year-old actress opened up about her return, which marks her first major film since 2011, and addressed her character's previously uncertain fate at the end of the fourth film.During Ghostface's second killing spree in Woodsboro during, Kirby was one of the locals targeted by the mask killer before being eventually stabbed during the film's final act.
Initially believed to be dead, Kirby was seen twitching on the ground. But her fate was left unclear with the film never clarifying if she survived or not.It wasn't until that fans officially learned that Kirby had survived thanks to a brief Easter egg labeling her a «survivor» of Ghostface's murders.
And consequently those fans rallied for the fan-favorite character to come back and appear onscreen once again. «I willed myself into existence,» Panettiere says, laughing when asked about what she thought happened to Kirby in the end. «When I did, I made them promise.
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