The beneath accommodates spoilers for “I Know What You Did Final Summer season,” now in theaters.
Main, main spoilers for whoever hasn’t seen “I Know What You Did Final Summer season” (the 2025 one) but. Madelyn Cline, who portrays Danica Richards within the movie, has a brutal would-be-death scene on the film’s climax. With Danica seemingly on the backside of the ocean, it might seem that there was no coming again to the franchise for the “Outer Banks” star. However as a substitute, proper on the finish, Danica washes ashore. She’s alive towards all odds.
In an interview with THR, launched July 20 however carried out on June 28, Cline revealed that the ending was a last-minute revision. “I solely bought the information that I used to be coming again about two-and-a-half weeks in the past,” she mentioned — that means the scene was shot nearly a month shy of the discharge.
One other added scene was a throughline that linked Danica to the unique film’s Helen Shivers, portrayed once more in a dream sequence by Sarah Michelle Gellar.
“That was not within the unique script. I didn’t know that was occurring,” Cline mentioned. “I used to be on the way in which house from a rehearsal, and [director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson] texted me that we have been going to do it. And I used to be completely floored. Gobsmacked. I couldn’t consider what was occurring. She then despatched me the perimeters and was like, ‘What do you suppose?”’And I mentioned, ‘I completely love them, however no matter. I don’t care. The truth that we’re doing this, write no matter you need. I’m in.’”
Cline added that it “solely felt proper” for Gellar to return. “Additionally, virtually each character on this film will get to have the baton handed to them from an unique forged member. It’s simply so iconic and so particular to have that stamp of approval and to be ushered in as a subsequent era by Sarah Michelle,” she shared.
Cline mentioned that Gellar wasn’t remotely phased on set, and that she was “cracking humor” all day. “The entire household was there, and we shot it on a Saturday. So it sort of felt like an off day, but additionally an on day. It felt informal and actually chill and really familial. However Sarah Michelle is, and has all the time been, a power,” Cline mentioned.
Gellar advised Selection that she was at first hesitant to do the cameo, which reunited her with “Do Revenge” director Robinson. “Jenn Robinson introduced it as much as me like three or 4 years in the past – this has been an extended course of – I assumed, ‘It’s such a good suggestion, however you don’t know. Do folks nonetheless love the film? Do folks nonetheless watch the film?’” Gellar mentioned. “Jenn stored saying from the start to me, ‘You need to do one thing… And I mentioned, I’m lifeless. I’m lifeless. This isn’t supernatural.’ She was like, ‘I’m gonna determine it out.’ And he or she did and it was sensible.”
Whereas Gellar made the ultimate reduce, not each actor who labored on the movie did: Each Lola Tung (of “The Summer season I Turned Fairly” fame) and Nicholas Alexander Chavez shot scenes for the movie, however have been trimmed out earlier than the film premiered.
“It occurs. You shoot one thing and, if you watch the scene, it doesn’t match within the movie,” Robinson advised Selection of the reduce chilly open.
Whereas the director added that the actors have been “incredible,” she mentioned their sequence “didn’t work throughout the movie that we have been creating. And if you’re attempting to make one thing that’s daring, typically that occurs. However they’re so incredible, so it was positively a tough alternative.”
