Washington DC, Feb. 26 -- Actor Mason Gooding has revealed that he was battling a severe E. coli infection while shooting a key scene for the upcoming horror film Scream 7, admitting that he had to use a "Home Depot bucket" to vomit between takes, according to People.

Gooding, 29, shared that he fell ill just a day before filming what he described as "a fairly integral scene to the plot" of the highly anticipated instalment of the long-running franchise, which is set to hit theatres on February 27, as per the outlet.

"I happened to get E. coli the day before filming it," Gooding said. For the seventh installment of the horror franchise, he plays Chad Meeks-Martin, nephew of the original horror expert Randy (Jamie Kennedy). But when it c...