When , Reed describes the months following her exit as “disorienting.” Posey, meanwhile, also remembers “struggling” after the show’s end, but considers that time a “necessary plunge into unknowingness.” Since 2017, he’s primarily taken on voice-acting roles in animated films for Marvel and the Fast & Furious franchise. He also had a starring role on VH1’s short-lived Scream: Resurrection. However, that era of freedom gave him the opportunity to hone his craft as an alternative rock musician who’s garnered millions of streams on Spotify, as well as an OnlyFans creator who launched his account after coming out as queer in 2020.
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“I had another career that I was trying to start,” Posey says. “I was like, ‘Maybe I want to focus on this for a while now.’ But in these five years, I realized how much I love filmmaking and telling stories and being creative on that front.”
Though you’d think most young actors wouldn’t want to be defined by the one project that shot them to stardom, Posey admits that Teen Wolf has weighed heavily on his mind over the past five years.
“I periodically watch Teen Wolf every now and then,” the now-31-year-old admits. “I’m a huge fan of it. And super proud of all of us. It sticks with me a lot.” Because of that, Posey says he “didn’t have to dig too deep to figure out who Scott was or still is” while making the film. “But it was still scary,” he adds. “It was nerve-racking going up and going in front of the camera and portraying Scott again.”
Reed, however, was in a much different position, given that she’d put Allison’s bow and arrow to rest many years before.
“We were kind of making it up together, like what her arc was going to be,” Reed says about her early talks with Davies, who wrote the film. “I sent him a list of questions. What does Allison listen to? What does she eat? He responded with paragraphs of what that would be. And he was like, ‘thank you so much,’ because I helped stimulate his mind creatively to figure out who she is and where she is at this point.”
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Oddly enough, Allison is essentially an empty shell of her original character for most of the film due to her lack of memory and the evil forces corrupting her. Her true self, however, slowly seeps out in the latter half of the movie, which means Reed had to undergo two months of archery lessons and other physical training for her time kicking ass on screen.
Indeed, the film is pretty much non-stop action, and more of a two-hour-long quest for answers than a study of any of its core characters. Whether fans of the series will enjoy it or not, it will certainly have viewers wanting more Teen Wolf content (hopefully, with O’Brien next time). Regardless, Posey and Reed seem eager to continue expanding the Teen Wolf universe in whatever way they can.
“I definitely don’t want to close the chapter,” Posey says, to which Reed agrees, “I don’t either.”
“I want to keep going,” Posey continues. “I’ve always wanted to keep going. I’m down for more Teen Wolf in any capacity—a TV show, a movie, on ice, in the air, Broadway. Teen Wolf: The Musical—that could be pretty sexy.”
