I Know What You Did Last Summer‘s Returning Star on Being a Slasher Survivor

Freddy Prinze Jr.’s Ray survived the first round of hook-wielding horrors in 1997’s I Know What You Did Last Summer—then prevailed again when the mayhem shifted to a different seaside locale in 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. That’s an incredible record for a Final Girl boyfriend in a slasher series, and Prinze—who will play the role again in the upcoming reboot—says that this time around, Ray has a new survival skill: vulnerability. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Prinze explained that he and the film’s director and co-writer, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge), aimed to bring a version of Ray to the screen that would feel realistic, considering what he went through three decades prior. “I think what [Robinson and I] both brought to Ray was a lot more vulnerability in this movie,” Prinze said. The character now runs a bar, and as the first I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot trailer showed, he’s one of the first to speak out when a serial killer begins tar ... Read full article.