Robert Englund is too old for this shit (and by "this shit" we mean playing Freddy Krueger)

By Katie Rife | October 19, 2017 | 7:16pm

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Robert Englund knows how much Freddy Krueger means to fans. He signs autographs, takes pictures, dutifully answers question after question about his makeup and costumes, and just generally greets Freddy obsessives at hotel bars and in convention halls year after year after year. Still, time takes its toll, even on the human vessel through which an immortal child-molesting serial killer manifests on the screen. In other words: Don’t expect Englund to don Freddy’s famous sweater and fedora again.

Englund reminds fans that he’s too old for this shit in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly about 2003's Freddy Vs. Jason, which Englund says was—and will continue to be—the last time he played the role. “I’m too old to do another Freddy now,” he says. “If I do a fight scene now it’s got to be real minimal because I can’t snap my head for eight different takes and different angles. My spine gets sore. I can still be mean and scary, but I’m mostly relegated now to sort of Van Helsing roles, old doctors and shit. So it’s fun that the last moment of me ever playing Freddy is a wink to the audience.”