(The editor’s note: The following interview contains Major spoilers for the “I know what you did last summer. “)
One of the great delicacies in the new ”I know what you did last summer“For fans of the original, the film’s thought -provoking, satisfactory use of the first film stars: Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt Not only do perfuncture como performances, they are integrated components of the plot. That leads to another great joy – and surprise – when Prinze turns out to be one of the film’s two murderers.
For co -authors and director Jennifer Kaytin RobinsonSecuring Prinze and Hewitt on board early was the key – she made sure they were on board with the direction she wanted to take before she even wrote the script. “Det fanns några stora gungor med karaktärerna, så det var samtal jag hade tidigt med dem,” berättade Robinson till Indiewire om ett kommande avsnitt av The The the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the The the Filmmakers Toolkit Podcast. “I didn’t want to run in a direction that one or both would have disliked.”
Robinson was determined to create versions of the characters that would feel like a natural development where they began in 1997 filmAnd was happy when she met Prinze in a restaurant and found that he was quickly on board with his character that went to the dark side. “It wasn’t necessarily the pitch he thought he would get from me, but he was immediately on board,” Robinson said. The fact that Prinze was a huge horror fanatic who constantly recommended movies to Robinson during the production was an extra bonus. “I leaned tremendously during this process.”
That said, the greatness of Prinze’s performance in the film comes from the fact that he plays his character without a strip of self-awareness or flashing to the audience-supporting that he is the killer is as tragic as it is scary, thanks to the clarity and depth that Prinze delivers its climate monologue. “He undertook so hard,” Robinson said of Prinze in his final speech. “It was the last thing we shot with him, and I was so surprised. Everything was layered and deep and nuanced, and you could feel that pain. He performed it so beautifully.”
While Prinze and Hewitt’s performances in “I Know What You Did Last Summer” were announced well in advance of production, Robinson and the studio kept a few other performances of Legacy Cast members secret until release. Perhaps the biggest surprise was a como by Sarah Michelle Gellar; While the look is completely motivated as part of a dream sequence, it still comes as a shock because gellar gave interviews To publicly proclaim how ridiculous it would be for her dead character to return to the franchise.
“It was a very easily incorrect because none of us have lied,” Robinson said. “People say:“ Will she be in the movie? “And I say,” She’s dead. “And she is death. It was fun to … cushioning, but not lie. “Robinson had worked with Gellar on his previous film,” Do Revenge “, so when the director was offered” I know what you did last summer “, was her first call. Is it strange?” And she was so supportive. She was like, “You have to do this.”
Another surprise Como comes in the film’s sequence after credit, when Brandy returns as her character from 1998’s “I still know what you did last summer.” Like Gellar, Brandy had been avoiding in prediction InterviewsWhich makes its look more surprising – and thanks to how Robinson binds all the movies in the series together, more satisfactory. “I always wanted Brandy in the movie, but I wanted to make sure it felt true with the story we told and the characters and wallpaper.”
The fact that Hewitt’s character had retreated to isolation because of her trauma gave Robinson the hook she needed to bring brandy back. “I liked that the events in this movie drove her back to her former best friend, and now her potential partner in crime,” Robinson said. “The movie had a reason to drive you to Brandy and give you that price at the end of enduring the experience of” I know what you did last summer. “It gives you a fun moment of Levity at the end, where you have someone commenting on the madness you just witnessed.
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