I Know What You Did Last Summer director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson has explained why The Summer I Turned Pretty star Lola Tung was cut from the new ’90s horror sequel.
Set 28 years on from the original movie, the horror sequel sees Freddie Prinze Jr and Jennifer Love Hewitt reprise their respective roles as survivors Ray Bronson and Julie James.
Back in November 2024, it was reported that Tung had been cast in the film alongside Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story actor Nicholas Alexander Chavez.
Speaking to People, Robinson explained why Tung and Chavez’s roles ended up being cut from the film despite the pair having filmed a scene together.
According to Robinson, Chavez and Tung’s scene was initially planned as the opening scene of the movie, but it didn’t work with the rest of the film.
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“In every movie, it’s best laid plans, and then you edit the movie and you put it together and you go, ‘I love this in a vacuum. This is a fantastic scene. But it doesn’t fit in the movie’,” Robinson said.
She continued: “It was just one of those situations where it had nothing to do with Lola and Nicholas – they are both so fantastic. I really would love to work with them again. I loved working with them. They did a fabulous job. But in the larger tapestry of the film, it just didn’t fit.”
Robinson added: “It sucks because you don’t want to do that to those actors. And it sucks when you love something as a scene but that scene just doesn’t work in the final cut of the film.”
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Meanwhile, Hewitt recently teased a credit scene at the end of I Know What You Did Last Summer.
“I’m going to get killed for saying this, but don’t miss the credits,” she said, adding: “It could be a popcorn moment, it could be a death, or it could just be something really fun, but don’t miss it.”
I Know What You Did Last Summer is out now in cinemas.
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A horror enthusiast, she joined Digital Spy after working on her own horror website, reviewing films and focusing largely on feminism in the genre.
In her spare time, Harriet paints and produces mixed-media art. She graduated from the University of Kingston with a BA in fine art, where she specialised in painting. She also has an MA in journalism from Birkbeck University.