The actor who has played the villain of nightmares does not think he should return to this character.
There are actors who will always be remembered for a character that launched them to fame or made them remain in the memory of movie lovers forever, or rather in their nightmares… as happens to Robert Englund, who during eight Nightmare on Elm Street movies gave life to the villain Freddy Krueger.
And we speak in the past tense because Englund is clear that he is not going to put the glove on again with the claws as he looks too old to reprise this iconic character. “I’m too old and too stiff to play Freddy again. I can’t do the fight scenes in one take anymore.”
“I also have neck injuries, my back hurts and I have arthritis in my right wrist. So I’ve had to hang up the towel but I’d love to be able to do cameos in the next movies,” said the actor in an interview with Variety, in which he also admits that he doesn’t feel like a horror movie icon, but like a “tool.” .
“I know who the icons are. I am not an icon. Maybe Freddy Krueger is, but I’m not. I’m just a character actor, a simple tool that happens to have been very lucky in his career, “acknowledged the actor whose last appearance was in the Netflix series, Stranger Things.
Who could replace him as Freddy Krueger?
Although he acknowledges that his replacement in the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street released in 2010, Jackie Earle Haley, is a great Freddy Krueger and blames it for changing the character’s intentions toward children, making him a child molester instead of a nightmare, Englund likes another option as his replacement.
And it is also based on a proposal made by one of his fans: Kevin Bacon. “I know that he respects the genre and that he is a very physical actor. I think because of the silences and the way he moves, Kevin would be an interesting replacement.”. And you, do you see Kevin Bacon as Freddy Krueger?
