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Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt recently filmed a new I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel, almost 30 years after the original was in theaters. It’s surprising that Prinze Jr. wanted to return as he has since revealed that a poorly conceptualized stunt nearly cost him his life while working on the first film. Fortunately the new sequel also has a new director.

Prinze told the story as a guest on Chris Van Vliet’s show:

There was a stunt where to save money they sent the stunt crew home and they wanted me to drive this dinghy with an outboard motor over the wake of this boat. We do the rehearsal and the boat is not safe to do this jump and I fly out of the boat and it goes right over my head — the outboard engine — I don’t know how close it was but it felt like it was a millimeter away. I get out of the water and I’m pissed and the director comes up to me and he’s like ‘You told me you knew how to drive a speedboat.’ And I’m like yes I do, that’s not a speedboat, it’s a dingy with and outboard motor, what are you… you’re mad at me? And he’s like ‘We have to do it again.’ And I’m like… I’m not doing that again.

Prinze talks about the I Know What You Did Last Summer stunt at the 9:20 mark here:


Prinze also said that he had a hard time working for the director in general, as he made sure that Prinze knew he was not the director’s first choice for the role “every single day”. Rumor has it director Jim Gillespie had his heart set on Clueless actor Jeremy Sisto for the role. Prinze says that Gillespie gave him feedback that was aggressive to the point of “psychotic” including notes like “Don’t leave your mouth open. You look stupid when you do that.” He emphasized “That was the exact note, word for word; I’ll never forget it.”

Despite his experience on I Know What You Did Last Summer, Prinze says that horror has always been his favorite genre of film and the only reason he hasn’t been in more horror movies is that the opportunities haven’t presented themselves. “I had a real bad experience on the first one and a real special experience on the second one and I’ve been looking for a horror film ever since then but either the ones that came my way I didn’t like or the ones I liked didn’t come my way.”

I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) is expected to release in theaters on July 18, 2025.