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The new 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' sequel is now playing in theaters and it's connected to the original movie in more ways than just its name. So, where are Julie James and Ray Bronson, the only two survivors of the 1997 murders, all these years later? And who's the killer this time around?  WARNING: This video contains MAJOR spoilers!

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00:00The I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel is now playing in theaters,

00:03and it's connected to the original movie in more ways than just its name.

00:08So, were Julian Ray, the only two survivors of the 1997 murders all these years later,

00:14and who's the killer this time around? Warning, major spoilers ahead.

00:19A toast to us, to our last summer of immature adolescent decadence.

00:28The new film picks up in the seaport town of Southport, North Carolina,

00:32which has now been revitalized and turned into the Hamptons of the South.

00:37Thanks to a wealthy real estate developer and the father of new character, Teddy Spencer,

00:41the tale of the murderous fisherman who went on a killing spree and terrorized a group of teens in the 90s

00:46is now completely erased from the town's history.

00:49As I'm sure you know, the movie sees Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt

00:53return as their respective characters, Ray Bronson and Julie James.

00:56He's just out there, and he's watching us and waiting.

01:00What are you waiting for, huh?

01:02What are you waiting for?

01:0527 years after the events of the first film,

01:08Julie is now a college professor in a nearby town

01:11who specializes in the psychology of fear and trauma.

01:16What are you waiting for?

01:18As for Ray, her now ex-husband.

01:20It's an urban legend, American folklore, and they all usually originate from some sort of real-life incident.

01:28He's still in Southport, as he grew up blue-collar without the money other kids had.

01:33The cops are not going to help us.

01:36Then we'll find someone who will.

01:40It isn't something I like talking about.

01:42The new movie is riddled with Easter eggs, including the return of the iconic Croker Queen parade float.

01:47But the most glaring nod to the original is that this time around, the killer is Ray,

01:53along with Stevie, a member of the film's core friend group who works at Ray's bar.

01:58When it turns out that Stevie's friend from church was the victim of this film's car accident,

02:02she teams up with Ray to recreate the 1997 exploits of the fishermen to get revenge.

02:07We've seen you long play a good guy and a hero, but this movie, we see you play a bad guy.

02:11What was it like stepping into that?

02:13You know, my whole life, I wanted to do this.

02:15Since I was a little boy, I used to literally go down the hallway when it was lights-out time before I had to go to bed.

02:21And I would go into every dark corner and every dark room, and I was like three years old.

02:24My mom told me this story.

02:25I don't even remember doing this.

02:26And I would go, rah!

02:28And I'd go in the bathroom, the lights were out.

02:30Rah!

02:30And she goes, baby, what are you doing?

02:31I said, I'm trying to scare them before they scare me.

02:35The first movie I watched, I rented on Betamax, was The Creature from the Black Lagoon.

02:39But that movie made me fall in love with monsters and always wanting to be the man in the mask.

02:44And Hollywood, when I was making She's All That, wasn't going to ever let me be the man in the mask.

02:48That just wasn't an option.

02:49And this was my first opportunity to really get to be a monster.

02:53And the way that she developed this character and got him to this place was so organic and honest

02:59and broke my heart, to be honest with you, that I wanted to do that to the audience.

03:05I want the audience to be like, not, not Ray, not Ray.

03:09And so I tried to bring as much vulnerability and pain to the performance as I possibly could

03:14with all the life experience I have now at almost 50 years old.

03:18As for the reason behind Ray's turn to the dark side,

03:20he was angry that the story of what happened to him and his friends had been erased from Southport history

03:25and he never addressed the trauma it all caused him.

03:28And let me give you some advice.

03:30When you leave a man for dead, make sure he's really dead.

03:39Director and co-writer Jennifer Caten Robinson opened up about how the characters from the original film

03:44and the ones in this new one are connected through their traumas.

03:47Like the way in which the original sin eats at our characters in this movie eats at our characters from the original movie

03:56because I think that it all kind of is of the same thing.

04:01They are all dealing with the guilt and shame of what they did.

04:05And some of those characters are dealing with that over the course of a year

04:08and some of those characters are dealing with that over the course of 27 years.

04:11But the wound is the same for everyone

04:14and I think that was the most interesting thing to me about this movie.

04:17It is a movie about seven characters who all have the same wound

04:21and how does that change each of them differently.

04:24For much more on the new I Know What You Did Last Summer film, go to THR.com.

04:28For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

04:31For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

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