Before Scream star Neve Campbell survived a franchise-worth of Ghostface attacks as Sidney Prescott, she first had to survive a different kind of attack early in her career.

While appearing on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Campbell revealed that when she was 17 years old, she was attacked by a bear while filming a movie in Canada. "I was playing this role where she's one with the animals, and there was a scene where I'm supposed to be getting chased by a bear," the actor said, who at the time was instructed to dip her hand in honey and then run, encouraging the bear to chase her. "And I, of course, wanting to please everyone was like, 'Okay.'"

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"I dip my hand in honey and I run to the rock or the tree that they tell me to run to, and I turn around and put my hand out and the bear is not slowing down and he's not coming for my hand, and he grabs me by the leg and he pulls me through the forest," Campbell continued. "The whole crew is frozen because no one can believe what's happening, and all I can think to say is, 'He's biting me!' like it wasn't obvious."

Thankfully, the film's bear wrangler was able to turn the animal's attention on himself with some well-aimed rocks, allowing her to escape. Despite this experience, Campbell said that, as a young actor, she still wanted to proceed with the scene. "They were like, we're not doing it again, and I was like, again this people-pleaser, 'No, that was rehearsal! We didn't get it on camera, let's do it,'" she said. "Now, absolutely not. I'm not doing that."

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Campbell first appeared as Sidney Prescott in the original 1996 Scream and has starred in all of its subsequent sequels. She once again reprised the role for the fifth installment in the classic slasher franchise, simply titled Scream, appearing alongside fellow mainstays Courteney Cox (Gale Weathers) and David Arquette (Dewey Riley). The film has been described by the cast and crew as a relaunch rather than a sequel and, with a mix of old and new cast members, will be the first film in the franchise not directed by Wes Craven, who passed in August 2015.

"I genuinely was in two minds," Campbell said about doing another Scream without Craven, the script for which was written before she, Cox and Arquette had even signed on. "I loved the man very much. But [co-directors Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin ] wrote me a letter, speaking of their appreciation and great respect for Wes Craven, and speaking of the fact that the very reason that they are directors today was because of these movies and because of Wes, and that meant a great deal to me."

Scream is one of many films and television shows whose premieres have been affected by the recent surge of the omicron variant of the coronavirus (COVID-19). While its red carpet premiere was canceled, Scream is now in theaters.

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