The fan-favorite actor looks back on the lows of his career, starting fresh, and using horror to return to the spotlight.
Matthew Lillard has been in the acting game for decades, and depending on when you grew up, you mainly know him thanks to Hackers, Scream, or Scooby-Doo (both live-action and animation). He’s one of those stars who seems to be always working, and to hear him tell it, that’s because he put the work in to become a reliable actor.
Business Insider recently did a spotlight on Lillard, wherein he reminisced about the arc of his career. After breaking out in the ’90s, he became “caught up in this drive of trying to be ‘famous,’ and the success of what I was doing.” The critical and financial failure of Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed had him thinking he’d “never work again,” and later an offer to appear on Dancing With the Stars, made him realize he “really just wanted to be a great actor.
