I Know What You Did Last Summer has some new details ahead of the sequel. Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt are not playing leading roles in I Know What You Did Last Summer’s new sequel. The Scale Talk Podcast with David Miniatures had Prinze on to talk about the upcoming movie. In his comments, the actor made it clear that things would be different this time around.
Hewitt and Prinze were the lead roles in I Know What You Did Last Summer. As Julie James and Ray Bronson try to survive a rather harrowing ordeal. Fitting them into the leads wasn’t going to happen with the actress signing on to return rather late in the process. Still, the 48-year-old is excited for fans to see what this movie is bringing to the table. (H/T to Bloody Disgusting for the transcription.)
“[Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson] just took such good care of Love’s character, Julie James, and my character, Ray Bronson. They’re not the leads of the movie by any stretch of the imagination. She made them such a powerful pushing forward of the other cast,” the star said during the podcast.
He continued, “It’s not like, ‘Oh, here’s the Ray and Julie movie that we deserve.’ That doesn’t even make sense. That guy’s dead. So it has to be new generation. And the way she sort of laces us in there with them is just beautifully done. The script is wonderfully written.”
Jennifer Love Hewitt Recalls The First Movie
It’s been a long journey to I Know What You Did Last Summer’s sequel. So many familiar faces have already signed on. The original cast has been getting asked about this for years. In a conversation with ET, Jennifer Love Hewitt revealed that she originally was set to audition for Sarah Michelle Gellar’s role in the horror movie.
“I went in to audition for Sarah’s part in the movie and I was like, ‘It doesn’t feel like me.'” Hewitt told the outlet. “They said, ‘ok, well, what do you want to do?’ I was like, ‘I want to audition for Julie James. That’s what I want to do.’ They were like, ‘OK, well go outside. In 10 minutes you have to come back in and audition for Julie James.’ I just knew that I was more her. They said I got it, I like lost my mind.”
The actress would go on to describe the film’s success as “wild” before going into depth about why the second installment was better than her first experience with the franchise.
Hewitt continued, “The first one, I was terrified. I was like, ‘Am I messing up the entire movie?’ I couldn’t sleep [when] we were doing the first movie because I literally would be up until the middle of the night with somebody chasing me and then they’d be like, ‘OK, it’s wrap. Go home.’ How does one sleep during this process?”
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