As much as I love Tuesday Knight, why didn't they bring back Patricia Arquette as Kristen? She was terrific. My guess is that they asked for her to come back and she declined. Maybe she didn't want to be typecast. I glad Brooke Bundy reprised the role of the mother actually. I quite like her performance. And she is a total MILF in part 4.
shareI don't think she wanted to be typecast as a "scream queen" by doing 2 horror movies in a row.
Plus Nightmare 3 was her first movie, so Nightmare 4 would have been her 2nd, often times I think your first couple of movies forms the route your career will go in if you're an actor.
Create a society in which you would like to live, not knowing what you're going to come into it as.
Patricia Arquette, who played Kristen in the third part of the series, could not reprise her role here in the fourth movie because she was pregnant during filming.
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It's been widely circulated online that she was pregnant during filming, and thus couldn't participate, but the timeline on that doesn't really make sense, as she acted in another film that shot around the same time. Also, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 entered production in early 1988, and Arquette didn't give birth until January 1989. Another theory says that with her career already gaining steam, Arquette's agent asked for more money to return than producers wanted to pay.
Finally, in a 2017 interview, Arquette set the record straight. Her not returning as Kristen in A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 was due to wanting to pursue other projects that allowed her to play what she considered to be meatier dramatic roles. Despite that, Arquette says she loves the horror genre, and still has a lot of affection for the franchise. There's no reason to doubt that, as she's appeared in multiple horror projects in the decades since facing Freddy.
The trivia section says she was pregnant. Too bad. I couldn't stand Tuesday as Kristen. Not because I dislike the actress, it was just too distracting since Joey and Kincaid were played by the original actors..
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