Followers who have been excited to see Lola Tung and Nicholas Alexander Chavez within the new I Know What You Did Final Summer time movie shouldn’t get their hopes up.
Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson lately informed Folks journal that the 2 actors’ scenes have been nicked from the ultimate lower of the slasher sequel, regardless of the filmmaker initially planning to open the film with them.
“In each film, it’s greatest laid plans, and you then edit the film and you place it collectively and also you go, ‘I really like this in a vacuum. It is a implausible scene. Nevertheless it doesn’t match within the film,’” Robinson explains of her choice to chop Tung and Chavez’s scenes.
“It was simply a kind of conditions the place it had nothing to do with Lola and Nicholas — they’re each so implausible. I actually would like to work with them once more. I liked working with them. They did a superb job,” she added. “However within the bigger tapestry of the movie, it simply didn’t match.”
The Do Revenge director stated it all the time “sucks” when you must lower somebody’s scenes, “since you don’t need to do this to these actors. And it sucks whenever you love one thing as a scene however that scene simply doesn’t work within the remaining lower of the movie.”
Chavez, who rose to fame final 12 months along with his portrayal of Lyle Menendez in Ryan Murphy’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, beforehand informed The Hollywood Reporter that he “had a very nice time” capturing the reboot.
“All the horror followers are gonna come for me as quickly as they see this, however I had no concept what I Know What You Did Final Summer time was earlier than they got here to me with the concept,” he added about becoming a member of the undertaking. “I stay beneath a rock — please don’t give me a tough time about it — however we began speaking about it after which I turned to my girlfriend who’s like the most important horror film nerd of all time, and her entire face lights up, her jaw drops and he or she’s like, ‘We gotta go watch the film proper now.’ So we go into the lounge the place our TV is and we throw it on and it was simply a lot enjoyable.”
Chavez continued, “I grew up a Scooby-Doo child, so to see Freddie Prinze Jr. doing a distinct factor aside from Fred, that was a number of enjoyable. So I received again on the cellphone and talked to the director [Robinson] and was listening to her pitch the route that it ought to go in, and I used to be like, ‘Yeah!’”
The I Know What You Did Final Summer time reboot, which hits theaters on Friday, sees Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt reprise their roles from the unique 1997 pic. The movie additionally stars Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Sarah Pidgeon, Jonah Hauer-King and Tyriq Withers.