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Be judge to extremity your waiter astatine slightest 20% — and past show him he was very funny successful “Scary Movie.”
After New York audiences cheque retired nan sixth movie successful nan long-running scary spoof franchise this weekend, they tin caput to Cecchi’s edifice successful nan West Village wherever 1 of its stars, Cameron Scott Roberts, useful arsenic a server.
The 28-year-old Los Angeles autochthonal had a engaged and surreal week. On Sunday he was buzzing astir tables successful his orangish azygous connected West 13th Street asking, “Why are these bulb rings taking truthful long?”
By Tuesday, Roberts was connected a level to California for nan glitter premiere, wherever he walked nan reddish carpet with Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Cheri Oteri and nan Wayans brothers.
And past — here’s immoderate showbiz whiplash — he goes backmost to serving steaks and pork chops and nimbly balancing cocktails connected a tray this Saturday. He wouldn’t person it immoderate different way.
“I’m a immense believer that actors should beryllium waiters,” boyish Roberts told maine during his displacement connected Sunday, while in-the-know regulars excitedly congratulated him. “It’s bully for us. It keeps america grounded. And it’s a awesome measurement to enactment connected our feet while we’re auditioning.”
Roberts, who plays nan fellow of nan female ingenue Sara (Olivia Rose Keegan) successful Paramount’s parody flick, first learned astir nan large audition astatine nan restaurant, wherever he’s worked since January 2025, while nan unit was noshing.
“We were each eating family repast together,” Roberts said. “I get nan email and I publication nan description. It said, ‘This characteristic is handsome successful a serial slayer benignant of way.’ All nan labor successful nan edifice were successful nan room. And they each went, ‘Oh, you’re gonna get it.’”
They were right. Dead right. And 2 weeks later, Roberts jetted to Atlanta for 2 and a half months of filming.
Cecchi’s owner, Michael Cecchi-Azzolina, spent years acting successful nan theatre and is elastic erstwhile his workers person extracurricular projects. His three-year-old edifice has go a haven for artists.
Roberts really wanted to subordinate Cecchi-Azzolina’s squad aft reference his tell-all memoir, “Your Table is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D,’” astir what really went down successful nan city’s hottest eateries.
“I was like, ‘The measurement you talk astir acting arsenic good arsenic waiting tables and those 2 things helping 1 different really moved me,’” he told his early boss. Roberts has go a celebrated fixture astatine nan hotspot. He said a celeb precocious tipped him $900 connected a $900 bill.
Down southbound successful September, Roberts sewage to enactment alongside overmuch of nan original “Scary Movie” cast, including Shawn and Marlon Wayans, who returned to constitute nan screenplay pinch their siblings for nan first clip successful 25 years.
“When Marlon gets connected camera, it’s for illustration he takes power and allows himself to play astir and travel up pinch ideas and improv.”
The young character noticed that aforesaid adventurous tone successful Dave Sheridan, who’s backmost arsenic Doofy Gilmore.
“He was for illustration nan wildest feline successful nan full movie,” Roberts said. “He tried perfectly everything, and it gave maine nan powerfulness to effort that by nan extremity of nan shoot. On our past time of filming, I retrieve I came successful pinch an idea. I didn’t show anybody astir it. I conscionable did it. And cipher said a azygous point astir it successful a affirmative way, and cipher said thing astir it successful a antagonistic way. But it made it successful nan movie.”
“Scary Movie” is poised to person a large opening weekend. It’s expected to gross upwards of $45 cardinal and return nan No. 1 spot astatine nan container agency — a rarity for a big-screen drama today.
Roberts, however, is mostly concerned pinch his coworkers seeing it. He’s taking them successful nan adjacent fewer days.
“Everybody’s invited, which will beryllium fun. And I said I’d get people’s popcorn,” he said.
Their support intends nan world to him. The character remembers that erstwhile nan trailer for nan movie dropped successful March, nan first group blowing up his telephone weren’t schoolhouse friends aliases family members — but edifice workers.
“I sewage calls and texts from each nutrient runner, waiter, busser from each nan restaurants I’ve worked astatine successful New York,” he said. “And that’s really I consciousness for illustration I cognize that this movie is going to beryllium awesome and successful — because those are nan group who really spell to nan movies.”
