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The 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' sequel sees Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt reprise their roles from the 1997 original movie as a new group of young friends are pursued by a hook-wielding killer one year after their involvement in a tragic car accident. Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, Prinze Jr. and the new young cast spoke to The Hollywood Reporter's Tiffany Taylor all about the forthcoming slasher film. 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' hits theaters this summer on July 18th.

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00:00basically everyone said that I had been really naive and earnest and that I should have seen

00:05through it from the beginning. It was too good to be true. Maybe it's for the best. That sounds

00:09like it could be the start of its own horror movie. No, you have a point. The I Know What

00:14You Did Last Summer sequel sees Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt reprise their roles

00:18from the 1997 original movie as a new group of young friends are pursued by a hook-wielding

00:23killer one year after their involvement in a tragic car accident. Director and co-writer

00:28Jennifer Caten Robinson, Prinze Jr. and the new young cast spoke to the Hollywood Reporter all

00:33about the forthcoming slasher film. The cops are not going to help us. Then we'll find someone who will.

00:42It isn't something I like talking about. The original movie marked one of Prinze Jr.'s first

00:47major film credits and helped launch his acting career but the experience changed his life in

00:52more ways than one. He also met his now wife of over 20 years, Sarah Michelle Gellar, on set.

00:57What was it like returning to Southport and this role of Ray so many years later?

01:02There's a lot of pressure so it can be nerve-wracking at certain times when you're

01:06thinking about am I going to actually go and do this? During pre-production I think was the most

01:11pressure that I felt because we weren't out there actually doing it yet. Then once we were out there

01:16in Australia and started filming and then the Los Angeles stuff as well, all of a sudden it got more

01:22exciting. Both feelings still existed at the same time but one was just a little stronger in the

01:26beginning of the movie and one was stronger while we were doing it. But the opportunities

01:30that I get in this film are dream opportunities that I've wanted my whole career, my whole life.

01:37So in that regard a lot more excitement than pressure but pressure definitely exists.

01:43Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt of course return for this movie. What was their presence like on set?

01:48Iconic. There's such incredible people and they match that with their talent and yeah it felt really

01:59really special to be able to be in this film with them. Freddie's such a stand-up gentleman and

02:03like he's just so calm and like passionate about not only the movie but also his family and I think

02:11that's inspiring to see. It was so sweet seeing them all together. Yeah and Jennifer Love is like the

02:18sweetest human being ever and her bringing back this character and how warm she has been to all of us

02:25is really special. You can't run, you can't hide, get them before they get you. The young cast of this film

02:34is so talented and really highly sought after right now from hit tv shows to major movies. How did you go

02:39about casting the young leads in this movie? I mean it was a it was a process. A lot of people read.

02:45I met with a lot of people because it wasn't just about finding the people to play the individual

02:50roles. It really is about the chemistry. It's about bringing these five, six, including Gabrielle

02:54people together and wanting that chemistry to leap off the screen in the way that it did in the first

02:59I Know What You Did last summer. So it was it was definitely a process but I feel I feel very,

03:04very, very lucky with where we ended up. Yeah if you look at Jen's history in casting it's it's

03:09beyond solid. I mean if you watch Do Revenge and watch a cast interact and we were already friends

03:14before she before we made this movie and when she told me uh she was going to do it and was

03:19pitching me the idea the first thing I said when I went home to Sarah besides telling her about the

03:23big swings that the movie takes was I can't wait to see who she casts in this movie because I just

03:27think you're casting so next level and it's just every single person just sort of fits in there

03:32perfectly like like when you play operation and perfectly and you don't hit the sides even once

03:36nobody plays operation anymore but the old people will know what I'm talking about yeah the buzzer

03:40right the buzzer yeah exactly one of us

03:45is hiding something

03:50on screen you spend a lot of time screaming and crying and running from a murderer when you were

03:57off set what did you do to decompress and keep things light screaming screaming crying running

04:02for murder having yeah pretty much nightmares yeah we went to the beach a lot and we went to the beach

04:07a lot shooting in Sydney Australia the ocean is very healing yeah uh Jonah recruited me for his paddle

04:12team yeah yeah oh yeah Jonah and I played a lot of tennis yeah we played tennis we played paddle yeah

04:19tennis some pool you know that was playing pool Tyreek took on some local lads yeah and he beat the

04:26yeah at the pub at the pub we went to an Olivia Rodrigo concert yeah melted out the lyrics obsessed with

04:33her amazing Maddie had a birthday while we were there and I tried to organize something and it fell apart

04:39because the person that was helping me catfish me

04:41I tried to do something really outlandish and it failed I basically tried to like

04:49get us a boat to take us out for the day for her birthday and then the person that organized it just

04:54disappeared they ghosted you right and then yeah and then they came out with some weird messages about

04:59someone else that had taken it and basically everyone said that I had been really naive and earnest

05:05and that I should have seen through it from the beginning no it was too good to be true maybe it's for

05:10the best that sounds like it could be the start of its own horror movie no it's true you have a point

05:16the fisherman it was you were texting the fisherman yeah so true I know what you did last summer hits

05:21theaters this summer on July 18th for more on the new film go to thr.com for the Hollywood Reporter News

05:28I'm Tiffany Taylor

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