United Kingdom, April 27 -- Matthew Lillard thinks his career resurgence is more about nostalgia than people actually liking him.

The 56-year-old actor rose to fame as Stu Macher in 1996's Scream before playing Shaggy in 2002's Scooby-Doo and its sequel Monsters Unleashed two years later, while he has found a new fanbase since playing William Afton in Five Nights At Freddy's in 2023, going onto appear in The Life of Chuck and Daredevil: Born Again.

Speaking to the Phase Hero podcast, he said: "Scooby-Doo 1 and 2 are more popular now than they ever were when they came out.

"So I do think there's a weird nostalgia thing happening in our industry and in the zeitgeist because I think that people are longing for ye olde times.

"I think tha...