Director and co-writer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson also teases where things stand with Brandy Norwood’s character, Karla.
Brook Rushton
The year was 1997.
A year later, this mysterious murderer is out for vengeance, taking each teen down one by one.
Freddie Prinze Jr. returns as Ray Bronson in ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’.Credit:Brook Rushton
“They were all traumatized,” Prinze Jr. tellsEntertainment Weeklyof Ray and Julie.
Things haven’t exactly worked out professionally the way Ray was expecting either.
“Ray has a bar that he runs,” theShe’s All Thatstar explains.
Freddie Prinze Jr. in ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’.Brook Rushton
“It’s kind of where he’s at in his life now.
He’s not the active fisherman that he thought he was going to be.
He’s managing and owning a spot of his own and trying to keep it afloat.”
Aren’t Ray and Julie supposed to be dead?
Robinson is ready to explain.
“Here’s what I feel like I can say without spoiling anything,” Robinson says.
“We do find out what happened to her.
So that’s all I’ll say.”
Robinson also approached the film through a more modern lens, wanting to explore the effects of trauma.
Sarah Pidgeon, Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, and Tyriq Withers in ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’.Brook Rushton
There’s a true earthy manliness that’s really f—ing raw and awesome.
So that is definitely the main source of conflict between them: how do you move through this?
Do you push it down and repress it and just keep moving?"
“The energy when both of them got to set was crazy,” Robinson recalls.
“It was so fun, and there was so much reverence for both of them.
There was so much respect for both of them.
It is just such a really unbelievably cool, surreal thing.
I Know What You Did Last Summeropens in theaters July 18.
