Within the 1997 slasher movie I Know What You Did Final Summer season, Freddie Prinze Jr. fights to outlive a crazed stalker. However the scariest a part of the expertise might have been enduring the set itself.
Talking with TooFab in an interview tied to his new horror podcast, That Was Fairly Scary, Prinze claimed that the movie’s director, Jim Gillespie, didn’t need him within the film, as an alternative lobbying for a fresh-off-Clueless Jeremy Sisto. “When that’s your first job and also you hear these phrases, it simply wrecks you, man,” Prinze advised the outlet.
Given Gillespie’s alleged objections to Prinze, the actor stated that in rehearsal, he “would carry the opposite actors collectively with out me, and provides all of them notes.” In the meantime, Prinze stated that he acquired “disrespectful” and “psychotic” notes from Gillespie, together with one he’ll “always remember”: “Don’t depart your mouth open. You look silly whenever you try this.”
On the time, Prinze thought, “I’m both gonna break down or I’ve to beat this man’s ass,” he stated. “Like these had been the one two choices in my head. I keep in mind Ryan [Phillippe] got here as much as me and was like, ‘Screw that man, man. What number of instances did you audition for this film?’ and I’m going, ‘5 instances.’ He goes, ‘Yeah, you earned it. You didn’t get provided the position, you earned it.’”
On that, Gillespie and Prinze can agree—though their recollections of the actor’s casting are contradictory. In 2017, Gillespie advised Digital Spy that he had advocated for Prinze within the main position. “No person needed Freddie; they thought he was too delicate, he wasn’t muscular sufficient, so Freddie most likely screen-tested 4 or 5 instances,” the filmmaker stated. “He acquired to the purpose the place he was saying, ‘I’m finished,’ and I actually needed to plead with him to keep it up as a result of I needed him. I believed he was going to be nice with it.” (TooFab, which famous this beforehand, has reached out to Gillespie for remark.)
Through the first episode of his podcast, Prinze stated he was “simply gonna give up the enterprise” after I Know What You Did Final Summer season, which he known as a “depressing” expertise to TooFab, including, “It was a battle to complete work day by day. I used to be in ache each single day on that film. Nevertheless, it ready me for this enterprise in a approach. I’m perpetually grateful to Jim for being such an asshole as a result of I’ve by no means met one like that since…no different director I’ve met felt crossing these strains can be OK. I’ve been ready for each lesser A-hole within the enterprise.”
Prinze can also be grateful for the movie as a result of “I wouldn’t have any of the issues I’ve with out that film,” he stated. “I wouldn’t have my spouse [co-star Sarah Michelle Gellar], I wouldn’t have all the opposite motion pictures I’ve finished.” The actor added that he had the “actual reverse expertise” on the 1998 sequel I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer season, directed by Danny Cannon.
Talking of sequels: a continuation of the franchise is reportedly coming, set to be helmed by Do Revenge director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. It’s being described as a “passing of the torch” from one era to the subsequent. However Prinze stated that though he’s spoken to Robinson concerning the movie, “I haven’t acquired a suggestion.”
