The actress revealed that a pointed jab at Melania Trump’s “Be Best” campaign landed on the cutting room floor from Scary Movie, the franchise’s sixth installment, which opened to a stunning $55 million domestic debut on June 5. Faris told Dexerto she had been “always pushing for Cindy to be a classic MAGA rabbit hole” — envisioning the character as someone who “saw outside of the Walmart during quarantine that was raising some kind of crazy-ass fuss.”
The scene itself was specific: Cindy Campbell, blackout drunk in her truck, peers into the rearview mirror and mutters, “Be best, Cindy Campbell. Be best” — a direct nod to the first lady’s signature initiative, which Melania Trump launched in 2018 to address children’s well-being and cyberbullying. Faris said the moment was her own quiet wink at the audience. It didn’t survive the final edit.
Sources indicate the decision to cut the joke was not politically motivated but came down to pacing. Faris, for her part, seems unbothered. “You gonna be mad at Cindy?” she said. “I’m in a movie that is truly the most offensive movie ever made, and I’m the lead of it. I participate in offensive ideas. I think I can kind of do anything. It liberated me.”
That freedom came with the film’s return to its original creative team. Director Michael Tiddes brought back the Wayans brothers alongside Faris, Regina Hall, Dave Sheridan, Cheri Oteri, and Chris Elliott, targeting a fresh slate of horror films including Smile, Sinners, Get Out, The Substance, and M3GAN. Marlon Wayans has spoken publicly about how he and his brothers were pushed out of the franchise after Scary Movie 2 when they asked for a better deal, with the Weinsteins reportedly proceeding with a third film without them — an arrangement Wayans says could have landed in court.
Faris told TheWrap at the Paramount lot premiere that she could “finally thank Keenen Ivory Wayans properly,” capturing the reunion’s emotional weight for a cast that last worked together more than two decades ago. The franchise, which began in 2000, skipped an entire era of American political life — meaning Trump’s presidency arrived after the series went dormant. Faris saw Scary Movie 6 as a chance to catch up. The “Be Best” line didn’t make it. The $55 million opening weekend did.
