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 distinct seaside locale in 1998 sequel I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer time. That’s an unimaginable report for a Closing Lady boyfriend in a slasher sequence, 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.

Talking to Entertainment Weekly, Prinze defined that he and the movie’s director and co-writer, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge), aimed to convey a model of Ray to the display screen that may really feel sensible, contemplating what he went via three many years prior.

“I feel what [Robinson and I] each delivered to Ray was much more vulnerability on this film,” Prinze mentioned. 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 have been in a position to put in there, I assumed, was actually sincere and simply natural.”

Clearly, Ray’s nonetheless feeling the consequences 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 slightly grumpier with the best way the world has handled him since [the 1997 Southport Massacre],” Prinze mentioned. “So he has gone via rather a lot, and I don’t know if he’s handled it the best way the fashionable man offers with stuff, what I imply? He’s a man from the ’90s like myself, so I feel he’s most likely bottled up much more of these emotions we’ve talked about.”

Making it via many years 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 instructed they have been each about to satisfy sure doom—constructing on the same ending from the unique, which made it seem to be Julie was completed for.

Robinson has clearly thought rather a lot about this, telling Leisure Weekly that “I really feel like these closing scenes within the first two films 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 beneath the mattress. In order that they’re each alive and effectively, and what I’ll say is that now we have continued the custom in our movie.”

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

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