Dermot Mulroney is in Australia shooting his next project and, because of his schedule, that meant talking to the Tribune by phone at 5 a.m. his time. That’s nothing new for actors, he said. “Even my own near-90-year-old mother turned to me a year or so ago and said, ‘Dermot, you really have been getting up early all these years.’ So I was really touched, 38 years into my career, by the acknowledgment that there’s a little more involved than just standing there and smiling,” he deadpanned.
These days Mulroney can be seen as Detective Bailey in “Scream VI,” which he describes as more than a scary movie, but also a whodunit. “It really keeps ‘Scream’ in its own space in the — what do you want to call it, bloody massacre movies? — but that’s part of their point. ‘Scream’ tends to have more humor than other franchises, but the main thing for me is seeing the reveal. Ghostface is always Ghostface, except you never know who is under the mask ... and that reveal has always been immensely satisfying for audiences.”
Mulroney’s roles have encompassed everything from the Western “Young Guns” early on, to a string of rom-com favorites including “The Wedding Date,” “The Family Stone” and “My Best Friend’s Wedding.”
