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 unique seaside locale in 1998 sequel I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer season. That’s an unimaginable file 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 convey a model of Ray to the display screen that may really feel life like, contemplating what he went by way of three many years prior.

“I believe 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 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 believed, 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 best way the world has handled him since [the 1997 Southport Massacre],” Prinze stated. “So he has gone by way of 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 believe he’s in all probability bottled up much more of these emotions we’ve talked about.”

Making it by way of many years of trauma is one factor. However diehard followers may 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 prompt they have been each about to fulfill sure doom—constructing on the same ending from the unique, which made it look like 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 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 below the mattress. In order that they’re each alive and properly, and what I’ll say is that we’ve got 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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