I Know What You Did Final Summer time’s Returning Star on Being a Slasher Survivor

Freddy Prinze Jr.’s Ray survived the primary spherical of hook-wielding horrors in 1997’s I Know What You Did Final Summer time—then prevailed once more when the mayhem shifted to a special seaside locale in 1998 sequel I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer time. That’s an unimaginable document for a Last Lady boyfriend in a slasher collection, and Prinze—who will play the role again in the upcoming reboot—says that this time round, Ray has a brand new survival talent: vulnerability.

Chatting with Entertainment Weekly, Prinze defined that he and the movie’s director and co-writer, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge), aimed to carry a model of Ray to the display screen that may really feel reasonable, contemplating what he went via three a long time prior.

“I feel what [Robinson and I] each delivered to Ray was much more vulnerability on this film,” Prinze stated. The character now runs a bar, and because the first I Know What You Did Final Summer time reboot trailer confirmed, he’s one of many first to talk out when a serial killer begins focusing on the youthful technology.

The violence additionally triggers the horrifying reminiscences Ray has of his personal experiences. “The quantity of vulnerability we had been capable of put in there, I believed, was actually sincere and simply natural.”

Clearly, Ray’s nonetheless feeling the results of going to hell and again. “Catching up with Ray, you see how that has formed him into the place he’s in now. He loves his city and never everybody else does, in his view, and he’s a bit grumpier with the best way the world has handled him since [the 1997 Southport Massacre],” Prinze stated. “So he has gone via lots, and I don’t know if he’s handled it the best way the trendy man offers with stuff, you understand what I imply? He’s a man from the ’90s like myself, so I feel he’s in all probability bottled up much more of these emotions we’ve talked about.”

Making it via a long time of trauma is one factor. However diehard followers could be questioning simply how it’s that Ray and Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt’s character) survived that cheeky cliffhanger ending of I Nonetheless Know, which urged they had been each about to fulfill sure doom—constructing on the same ending from the unique, which made it appear to be Julie was finished for.

Robinson has clearly thought lots about this, telling Leisure Weekly that “I really feel like these last scenes within the first two motion pictures dwell outdoors the canon … as a result of within the first film she will get attacked via the bathe, via the glass door, and within the second film, she will get pulled underneath the mattress. So that they’re each alive and properly, and what I’ll say is that we’ve continued the custom in our movie.”

Oh boy. We’re hoping which means each legacy characters come out on high (once more) in I Know What You Did Final Summer time, out July 18.

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