News Senior Editor Brandon Schreur spoke to Barbie’s Ariana Greenblatt, Rebecca Ablack, and Ella Rubin about the new Netflix slasher movie Fear Street: Prom Queen. The three of them discussed performing a dance sequence in the film, what they liked most about their characters, and more.

“Welcome back to Shadyside. In this next installment of the blood-soaked Fear Street franchise, prom season at Shadyside High is underway and the school’s wolfpack of It Girls is busy with its usual sweet and vicious campaigns for the crown,” the logline reads. “But when a gutsy outsider puts herself in the running, and the other girls start mysteriously disappearing, the class of ’88 is suddenly in for one hell of a prom night.”

Fear Street: Prom Queen will be released on Netflix on May 23, 2025.

Brandon Schreur: Rebecca and Ella, I am dying to ask you about the dancing scene in this movie. I’m such a big sucker for whenever there’s an unexpected dance number in a movie. As soon as this one started, I was just like, ‘Yes!!’ Can you tell me a little bit about what it was like filming that moment? How many times did you have to rehearse that before you got it right?

Rebecca Ablat: Oh my gosh. Well, it was definitely interesting. When we heard about the American flag leotard, we said, ‘Okay.’ When we heard about dancing in the dyed pumps, we said, ‘Okay.’ The rehearsals were very fun. Me and Ella were filming our rehearsals and then watching them back to continue learning, and that was maybe the most hilarious part of filming the entire thing. I can’t dance. Ella can.

She Rubin: You can! What? That’s crazy of you to say that. That’s insane.

Abelter: This girl can move.

Rubin: You can one hundred percent dance. [Rebecca] was getting it so quickly. And, like, so smooth with it. I was out of my depth. I didn’t know we were doing a dance until we were in Canada, filming, or else I might have jumped ship. No, I wouldn’t have. But it was really fun because everyone I did it with — we were all together, and it’s just like a fun scene, and really exciting to get to do something so different.

But I was gone for something, and I only had a day of rehearsal before we did the dance. Not only that, but there are certain moves that my body just won’t do. So, it was a little trying. And, funny enough, the shoes were the biggest issue. Overall, it actually ended up being very, very fun.

Abelter: And it looks great.

Rubin: And it looks amazing. But the shoes, they taped them around our feet. All of our shoes were a couple of sizes too small on us, and they would, like, flop off in the dance. If you look closely, they are fully around…

Ariana Greenblatt: Watching it for the first time, not knowing that either of you were dancers, I would not have thought…I thought it was so great. I don’t know what you guys are talking about. I didn’t bat an eye once, thinking it was awkward at all. I was very entertained. It’s one of my favorite scenes of the whole movie.

Rubin: And Fina [Strazza] is dancing her ass off. Fina and Ilan [O’Driscoll]they’re — I can’t even imitate it. They’re moving and grooving. We had some good dancing. Really, it’s a film about dance, at the end of the day. It’s sort of a dance film and that’s why I’m proud to be a part of it.

I can see it. I thought it turned out great, though, it looked like you guys were having so much fun. Ariana, I loved your character in this, too. She’s the person who seems like she’s too cool for school and doesn’t care what other people think, but there’s also more to her than that, I think. What aspect of Christy were you most excited to play, and what made you most excited about joining the Fear Street franchise?

Greenblatt: I watched the trilogy and I loved it so much. I loved the music aspect. I loved just how, again, it’s fun, it’s camp, and it’s exciting. I connected to the characters, I think — that’s a big aspect of these films that I liked. You had enough time to pick your favorites and make your predictions of who is going to die. I love stuff like that.

Preparation for Christy, I think it was very fascinating for me to figure out the balance of her being this super cool, popular girl that, like, nobody talks to. I feel like the trope and stereotype is, the most popular girl, everyone talks to her, like with Tiffany. [Tiffany and Christy] are both very popular, but, like, in polar opposite ways. How dare you ever look in Christy’s direction but, whoa, she’s so cool, and Tiffany, everyone wants to be her friend. I think that was a fun balance for me to find.

Also, just playing the nonchalance of her, I feel like she just really doesn’t care. For me, I always want to improv or add something, but Christy would, like, never talk. She’s like, ‘I don’t care to add anything to the situation.’ So that was fun as well. Also, being rude and giving dirty looks to any of these people was difficult for me. They are so talented and incredible that I wanted to laugh during the scenes, and I couldn’t. I had to be stone cold, which was difficult. But that’s what was fun about Christy.

Thanks to Ariana Greenblatt, Rebecca Ablack, and Ella Rubin for discussing Fear Street: Prom Queen.