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 distinct seaside locale in 1998 sequel I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer season. That’s an unimaginable document for a Last Woman 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 ability: vulnerability.

Talking to 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 that might really feel practical, contemplating what he went via three a long time prior.

“I believe 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 concentrating on the youthful technology.

The violence additionally triggers the horrifying recollections Ray has of his personal experiences. “The quantity of vulnerability we have been capable of put in there, I assumed, 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 little bit grumpier with the way in which 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 way in which the fashionable man offers with stuff, what I imply? He’s a man from the ’90s like myself, so I believe he’s most likely 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 is perhaps questioning simply how it’s that Ray and Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt’s character) survived that cheeky cliffhanger ending of I Nonetheless Know, which recommended they have been each about to satisfy sure doom—constructing on an analogous ending from the unique, which made it seem to be Julie was performed 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 motion pictures reside exterior 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. In order that they’re each alive and properly, and what I’ll say is that we now 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 season, out July 18.

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