I Know What You Did Last Summer‘s Returning Star on Being a Slasher Survivor

Freddy Prinze Jr.’s Ray survived the archetypal circular of hook-wielding horrors successful 1997’s I Know What You Did Last Summer—then prevailed again erstwhile the mayhem shifted to a antithetic seaside locale successful 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. That’s an unthinkable grounds for a Final Girl fellow successful a slasher series, and Prinze—who will play the relation again successful the upcoming reboot—says that this clip around, Ray has a caller endurance skill: vulnerability.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Prinze explained that helium and the film’s manager and co-writer, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge), aimed to bring a mentation of Ray to the surface that would consciousness realistic, considering what helium went done 3 decades prior.

“I deliberation what [Robinson and I] some brought to Ray was a batch much vulnerability successful this movie,” Prinze said. The quality present runs a bar, and arsenic the archetypal I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot trailer showed, he’s 1 of the archetypal to talk retired erstwhile a serial slayer begins targeting the younger generation.

The unit besides triggers the horrifying memories Ray has of his ain experiences. “The magnitude of vulnerability we were capable to enactment successful there, I thought, was truly honorable and conscionable organic.”

Clearly, Ray’s inactive feeling the effects of going to hellhole and back. “Catching up with Ray, you spot however that has shaped him into the presumption he’s successful now. He loves his municipality and not everyone other does, successful his view, and he’s a small grumpier with the mode the satellite has treated him since [the 1997 Southport Massacre],” Prinze said. “So helium has gone done a lot, and I don’t cognize if he’s dealt with it the mode the modern antheral deals with stuff, you cognize what I mean? He’s a feline from the ’90s similar myself, truthful I deliberation he’s astir apt bottled up a batch much of those feelings we’ve talked about.”

Making it done decades of trauma is 1 thing. But diehard fans mightiness beryllium wondering conscionable however it is that Ray and Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt’s character) survived that cheeky cliffhanger ending of I Still Know, which suggested they were some astir to conscionable definite doom—building connected a akin ending from the original, which made it look similar Julie was done for.

Robinson has intelligibly thought a batch astir this, telling Entertainment Weekly that “I consciousness similar those last scenes successful the archetypal 2 movies unrecorded extracurricular the canon … due to the fact that successful the archetypal movie she gets attacked done the shower, done the solid door, and successful the 2nd movie, she gets pulled nether the bed. So they’re some live and well, and what I volition accidental is that we person continued the contented successful our film.”

Oh boy. We’re hoping that means some bequest characters travel retired connected apical (again) successful I Know What You Did Last Summer, retired July 18.

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