Freddie Prinze Jr. "wanted to fight" its director "I know what you did last summer"

The actor had "miserable" experience on the 1997 teenage horror film.


Freddie Prinze Jr. Played in a series of popular films in the 1990s and the early 2000s, She's all that And Yours among them. But his career really started with the horror film for teenagers 1997, I know what you did last summer . (He has also presented his wife for over 20 years, Co-Star Sarah Michelle Gellar .) Although the role changes his life both professionally and personally, Prinze does not come back to his time to be made from 1997 I know what you did last summer affectionately. In a recent interview, the actor revealed that he had had such a "miserable" time with the director of the film that there were times when he "wanted to fight him". Read the rest to see what Prinze had to say on the tense set.

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Prinze says that the director did not want it for the role.

In a new interview with TOOFAB, Prinze has opened its time on I know what you did last summer After watching it in whole for the first time. The 47 -year -old shared that he generally does not like to watch himself, but that he saw the film for his new horror podcast, It was quite frightening.

Prinze said that the director Jim Gillespie I didn't want him to be in the film but he won the role because of the producer and the writer. Gillespie wanted Jeremy Sisto To play instead, according to the She's all that star.

"I'm going to give the man that, I think his name is Jim, he made no bones on this subject," said Prinze. "There was no passive aggressiveness - which I hate - it was very direct in the fact that," I don't want you in this film. "So when it's your first work and you hear these words, it destroys you, guy. It stops you."

He also said: "He made a single point of me each time, would bring together the other actors without me and give them all the notes. And I am like, well, was simply trying to do method shit? I? I just don't understand. "

He had to be discussed by fighter.

Freddie Prinze Jr. at the premiere of
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Prinze shared that there were times when he wanted to fight Gillespie.

"When I had these moments when the director gave me psychotic notes, like" do not leave your mouth open. You look stupid when you do it " - it was the exact note, word for word, I will never forget that - and I say to myself, I will break down or I have to beat [explanive] of this type . As if they were the only two options in my head, "said Prinze.

Elsewhere in the interview, the actor said: "I wanted to fight this guy two or three times different. Once I felt a legitimate reason, and the other two, I was just annoyed, which is not is not true. I'm happy everyone told me. "

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A dangerous blow went very badly.

Freddie Prinze Jr. in
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On his podcast, Prinze recalled a blow It did not go as planned on the horror film, injuring him almost seriously. It happened when he was driving a boat.

"The whole canoe flies in the air, puts itself almost backwards, throws me, lands on its belly, and the engine is still on the move, goes just above my head," he said. "I do not feel the propellers in itself, but I feel the movement in the water of the propellers."

He continued: "The director approaches me - and I expect many good excuses - and he approaches me and says:" We have to withdraw the blow. You destroyed the blow. "And I am going to: 'I what? I what." "Prinze said he was also surprised to note that the guilty person with whom he worked had been sent home for the day.

"I made my peace. I am not angry with this director, Jim Gillespie is his name. I was angry then. I was 21 years old. I had so much more testosterone in my body that my body cannot produce now, "he said, laughing." I don't have the ability to be angry. But it was so scary. "

He relied on his co-stars

Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Ryan Phillippe in
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Prinze told TOOFAB that his comrades helped him travel the shooting, in particular GELLAR and Ryan Phillippe . AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"I remember that Ryan came to me and said to me:" Go this guy, guy. How many times have you auditioned for this film? "And I am going," five times ", he says," what has reserved this role for you. See his notes. Any note that he just gives you say, okay, and do what you want Doing '' recalls Prinze. "He was the first person telling me that."

He almost left the film.

Freddie Prinze Jr. at Motor City Comic Con in 2022
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Prinze said he was planning to get out of I know what you did last summer Stay for good.

"I almost took a flight and went home," said Prinze in the interview. "I ended. There are other things I can do. I abandoned the cordon blue to make this film. I'm going to be a chef, that's what my mother wanted me to be anyway. I wrapped my bags that evening. I was just going to stop business. "

Prinze decided to continue playing but also maintained his passion for food. He published a cookbook, Back to the kitchen , in 2016.

He is happy to have stayed.

Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar in 2001
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Prinze is happy now that he stayed with the film, because I know what you did last summer changed his career and presented him to his wife.

"With hindsight, I am not upset, because this film launched my whole career. I would have none of the things I have without this film, I would not have my wife, I would not have all The other films I made, I would not have this podcast, "he said. He also said that having a bad experience at the start of his career was a disguised blessing because if he worked with other difficult people, he had already crossed the worst.

Gillespie told another story.

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, and Freddie Prinze Jr. in
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In an interview with Digital Spy for the 20th anniversary of I know what you did last summer In 2017, Gillespie AuTa Prinze complaint That he was not satisfied with the actor. In fact, he said he had fought for Prinze to get the role.

"No one wanted Freddie; they thought it was too soft, he was not muscular enough, so Freddie was probably tested on the screen four or five times," said Gillespie. "He got to the point where he said:" I'm done ", and I had to beg him to stick to that because I wanted it. I thought he was going to be great. Gym and worked, changed her diet and her cut hair. I stayed on my arms and finally they said: "Yes".

The best life could not reach Gillespie for additional comments.


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