{"id":273495,"date":"2025-07-19T01:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T01:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/273495\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T01:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T01:34:18","slug":"why-the-summer-i-turned-prettys-lead-star-was-cut-from-new-90s-horror-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/273495\/","title":{"rendered":"Why The Summer I Turned Pretty’s lead star was cut from new ’90s horror sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"

I Know What You Did Last Summer director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson has explained why The Summer I Turned Pretty<\/a> star Lola Tung was cut from the new ’90s horror sequel. <\/p>\n

Set 28 years on from the original movie, the horror sequel sees Freddie Prinze Jr<\/a> and Jennifer Love Hewitt reprise their respective roles as survivors Ray Bronson and Julie James. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

Speaking to People<\/a>, Robinson explained why Tung and Chavez’s roles ended up being cut from the film despite the pair having filmed a scene together. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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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. <\/p>\n

She continued: “It was just one of those situations where it had nothing to do with Lola and Nicholas \u2013 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.”<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Hewitt recently teased a credit scene<\/a> at the end of I Know What You Did Last Summer<\/a>. <\/p>\n

“I\u2019m going to get killed for saying this, but don\u2019t 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\u2019t miss it.”
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Reporter, Digital Spy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Harriet is a freelance news writer specialising in TV<\/a> and movies<\/a> at Digital Spy<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A horror enthusiast, she joined Digital Spy<\/strong> after working on her own horror website, reviewing films and focusing largely on feminism in the genre.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I Know What You Did Last Summer director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson has explained why The Summer I Turned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[1380,103528,1331,77,3989,1330,3943,103527,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-273495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-content-type-news","9":"tag-contentid-1bb4aa3c-8204-4ade-8c52-7a7027512d1c","10":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-hasproduct-true","13":"tag-locale-gb","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-shorttitle-why-the-summer-i-turned-pretty-lead-wasnt-in-sequel","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114877332244502092","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}