David Arquette thanks ‘Scream’ director Wes Craven: ‘I got a baby out of it’

David Arquette will forever be grateful to late “Scream” director Wes Craven for giving him a very special thing: Courteney Cox.

Or, more specifically: a child with her.

“Thank God for [director] Wes Craven because I got a baby out of it,” Arquette joked during a recent episode of “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” where the actor thanked the horror master for casting his now ex-wife back in 1996. “I mean, not Wes Craven — thank Courteney Cox!”

Cox, now 57, and Arquette, now 50, met on the set of “Scream,” where they played a couple — anchorwoman Gale Weathers and Deputy Dewey Riley — uncovering serial killers together. They married in 1999 and in 2004 welcomed a daughter, Coco, who’s now 17. However, the couple separated in 2010 and divorced in 2013.

“Never Been Kissed” actor Arquette and the “Friends” star appeared in all four of the “Scream” films from 1996 until 2011. The two will be seen next in the fifth installment of the franchise, set for a January 2022 release.

“Scream” co-star Matthew Lillard revealed last month that Craven was “miserable” while filming the three following sequels.

“I don’t think anyone gave ‘Scream’ a lot of credence,” the 51-year-old “She’s All That” actor told entertainment site Bloody Disgusting.

“I mean, I don’t think anyone gave us a chance because we were coming in with a director that wasn’t necessarily young and hot,” he continued. “And we were coming with two television actors. And I think that we had a version of [Craven] that was humbled and happy to be there.”

Lillard added, “I think that the cast, we all had an experience within that. Because we were all young, and we were all cohesive. We were like this little family for two months.”

However, he said he felt that filmmaker Craven “loved” that aspect of the production.

“I believe that he enjoyed that. There was no pressure on that movie to be something special. It ended up being something iconic, but at the moment, there wasn’t the pressure,” Lillard concluded.