'I Know What You Did Last Summer' Interviews With Freddie Prinze Jr., Chase Sui Wonders And More

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"I Know What You Did Last Summer" vet Freddie Prinze Jr. is joined by writer/director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and the new cast (Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Tyriq Withers, Sarah Pidgeon and Jonah Hauer-King) of the latest sequel to the classic '90s slasher movie. We discuss some behind-the-scenes details about how the film was made, including an extended spoiler-filled section on the film's killer reveal and more.

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00:00This is so spoilery, but yeah, but it's it's hopefully this comes out after the movie

00:10Did you ever consider the full chaos idea of calling this movie? I know what you did last summer 28 days later

00:17Years later 27 years later. No, we didn't but maybe we should call Sony

00:24Yeah, we did was were there any other considerations for the title? No because it's its own story

00:32And because it is its own accident that has nothing to do with the original accident

00:37That's what it is. You know what I mean? Like because we've kind of like yes

00:40We bring in the the you know Freddie and Jen

00:43But it is its own kind of contained entry and they did something last summer. So there's kind of no other

00:49Title for me. How long do you actually think that each of you would survive if you were being hunted by a serial killer?

00:56No time. Zero time. Zero amount of time. It's like

01:00He has a crazy hook. Oh, is that the serial killer? Yeah, if you want. Yeah, yeah, he has

01:08The fisherman has millions of weapons

01:11Millions and millions of weapons

01:14At his disposal. I think my panic would would get the best of me, and I think the first couple moves

01:22I think I would make the right choices and then I would start to think about it too much and I would panic and I would make a wrong move and then

01:31Listen, I think we've all picked up some tricks of the trade and after filming this movie

01:35Yeah, if the fights with the serial killer could be like choreographed dances, I'd say that

01:39That would be pretty good

01:41And at half speed

01:42Yeah, at half speed, too fast

01:43Yeah, and if you could say time out if it goes wrong

01:45Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

01:46They come in through the door and say, okay, let's just block it

01:48Yeah, yeah, pretty nice little cushion on the ground

01:50Uh-huh

01:51Big mud

01:52Yeah

01:54Oh my god

01:55I'm calling out on one

01:56Everyone chill out!

01:58We don't tell anybody what happened tonight

02:00We should go

02:03Having made this film after the experience of making the studio

02:06Did it color like the idea of making a franchise film at all?

02:10That's a good question

02:11I think I was

02:13I received a lot of IP floating around right now as we all know

02:17And I actually had received a couple other IP sort of projects from my agents

02:25But this one stood out to me as something that was very exciting

02:29And actually, I mean the whole cast of the studio, they were kind of the age of like when this original movie came out

02:36So they're excited, they're excited, they're fans

02:38But it did color it in the sense that I feel like I got a lot of comedic

02:44It was a comedic master class and bringing that into this helped a lot in terms of just bringing some levity to this

02:51You need to handle this

02:56This isn't the first time there's been violence like this in Southport

03:00It's not going to stop

03:12When did you get the idea to have Rae be the killer?

03:14And what was your first reaction to getting that news?

03:16Yeah, you start with her because the big swing is her

03:19Instantly

03:21Like when Sony came to me and said, would you want to do this?

03:24I kind of had two things that I said

03:26Yes, but I want to kill basically everyone

03:29I don't want to make a movie where we're setting up a franchise with, you know, you have seven characters and six survive

03:35I was like, we're killing a lot of people

03:37Body counts higher

03:38And then I knew that when I really sat down and thought about where would these people be?

03:43And how could this change a person?

03:46Especially knowing that they each have kind of their tethers in the movie in the young cast

03:51What would that look like?

03:53And so I said, and I'm

03:55I think Rae would be the killer

03:57I want Rae to be the killer

03:58And Sony said yes

03:59And then I was very nervous

04:00I brought it to Freddie and Freddie said yes

04:03Yeah, she, like I said, she took a big swing

04:07And, you know, there's a lot of pressure that comes along with that

04:11I know that it's going to make some diehard fans upset

04:14Because it should break their hearts

04:16That was kind of my goal in the performance

04:18That's why I tried to play him so vulnerable and broken

04:21In the hopes for that

04:23That's all deliberate

04:24But at the same time, as scary as that is, it's just as exciting

04:29I've never gotten to do that ever

04:31I've never gotten to be the man in the mask

04:34I've never gotten to be the monster

04:36And Hollywood is not going to allow that ever

04:39And when she was like, yo, you get to do this

04:42You get to be this

04:43I just had to know why and how

04:45And once those questions were answered

04:47I said yes

04:48And it was before the script was even written

04:50It was just based off the idea

04:51And her thought and effort and energy

04:54That she put into Rae

04:56And where he would be now at this point in his life

04:58Well, to even kind of dig down on that

04:59I mean, how did you kind of think about his marriage to Julie

05:03And kind of what they went through

05:05And then obviously the events in the town

05:06To kind of cover up the events

05:08Yeah, I mean, look

05:09I have a lot of friends whose relationships didn't work out

05:11For a plethora of reasons

05:13And sometimes it's trauma

05:15And not dealing with that trauma

05:17And that sort of shortens your fuse over years

05:21And little things start setting you off

05:23And it's not really connected to what just happened

05:25It's connected to something that happened years ago

05:27So there's a lot of bringing that to work with you

05:30Which isn't fun

05:31But in between the words action and cut

05:33It's a blast

05:34Because you get to kind of demonstrate it

05:36And execute it and show people what you've prepared

05:38And then hopefully you're able to kind of let all that go

05:41And see what happens in the moment

05:43You know what I mean?

05:44It all depends on kind of how the days flow

05:46And it dictates on how far you go in a scene

05:50But once I knew the reason why

05:52And I knew how I could play a broken man

05:54Because that's what Rey is at this point

05:56He's not this blue-collar hero anymore

05:58He has been broken by this

06:00He didn't deal with it

06:01And trauma either makes you or breaks you

06:04I know people that it's made stronger

06:06And I know people that it's broken into

06:08And this is so spoilery

06:11But yeah, but it's

06:12Hopefully this comes out after the movie

06:14And yeah, he's a broken man

06:16And this is the result

06:17Your scene with Sarah Michelle Gellar

06:19Which is, it's so

06:20I mean, she's a genre legend

06:22What was it like having that moment with her?

06:24Oh, it was awesome

06:25God, I mean, awesome doesn't even cover it

06:27It was iconic, it was amazing

06:28It was so like

06:30I called my parents at the end of the day

06:32And I was like, oh my god

06:33I just did something really cool

06:36Even just to have all the OGs come back

06:40And just be on set

06:41And be a part of it

06:42And to give their blessing

06:44Is one thing

06:45But then to be in a scene with

06:48The Sarah Michelle Gellar

06:50Who's Helen is my danish blueprint

06:53You know, it's really, really special

06:56And I don't know

06:59It's really indescribable

07:02And it's probably one of the most iconic days of my life

07:09We are not gonna die to do that

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