I Know What You Did Final Summer season’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 season—then prevailed once more when the mayhem shifted to a special seaside locale in 1998 sequel I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer season. That’s an unbelievable document for a Closing Woman 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 ability: 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 will really feel practical, contemplating what he went by way of three a long time prior.

“I feel what [Robinson and I] each dropped at 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 season reboot trailer confirmed, he’s one of many first to talk out when a serial killer begins focusing on the youthful era.

The violence additionally triggers the horrifying reminiscences Ray has of his personal experiences. “The quantity of vulnerability we had 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 somewhat grumpier with the way in which the world has handled him since [the 1997 Southport Massacre],” Prinze mentioned. “So he has gone by way of quite a bit, and I don’t know if he’s handled it the way in which the fashionable man offers with stuff, you realize 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 by way of a long time of trauma is one factor. However diehard followers is likely to 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 advised they had been each about to satisfy sure doom—constructing on an analogous ending from the unique, which made it seem to be Julie was achieved for.

Robinson has clearly thought quite a bit about this, telling Leisure Weekly that “I really feel like these ultimate scenes within the first two motion pictures reside exterior the canon … as a result of within the first film she will get attacked by way of the bathe, by way of the glass door, and within the second film, she will get pulled underneath the mattress. In order that they’re each alive and effectively, and what I’ll say is that we now have continued the custom in our movie.”

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

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