With the actress set to return to the slasher franchise next month, Jennifer Love Hewitt has teased Julie James will be “very different” in I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Jennifer Love Hewitt has teased Julie James will be “very different” in I Know What You Did Last Summer.
The 46-year-old actor is set to reprise the role after first starring as Julie in the 1997 original and its 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, and Hewitt has now hinted Julie has changed a lot in the upcoming slasher.
Speaking about her character during an interview with Extra, Hewitt said: “She’s very different. I think you’ll see shades of that girl because I want those to be in there, but she’s lived in.
“She’s in her 40s. She’s carried this a long time. I think she’s figured out how to deal. She’s a professor in sort of the mind and trauma and PTSD field.
“So, I think she’s figured out a way to put herself in a position in her life so she can deal every day with what happened to her in her teens. She’s a little edgier. She’s funny.”
As well as Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr. will return for I Know What You Did Last Summer as Ray Bronson.
Meanwhile, Sarah Michelle Gellar – who starred in the original I Know What You Did Last Summer as the ill-fated Helen Shivers – has been given an “unofficial” role in the upcoming slasher by director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson.
I Know What You Did Last Summer – which will hit screens on 18 July 2025 – follows a group of teens who are haunted by a deadly secret after a hit-and-run cover-up.
With a masked killer stalking them one year later, the group seek out two survivors from the infamous Southport massacre of 1997 as their past comes back with a vengeance.
Previously, Robinson teased I Know What You Did Last Summer would be “much more brutal” than the original.
Speaking with People, she said: “[The horror elements are] ratcheted up to a hundred in this – it’s much more brutal.
“There’s definitely more methodology to every kill in this movie, unlike the first, which is kind of just him [the killer] stalking them and going after them.
“There’s not a lot of gore or blood or violence in the first one. There certainly is in this one.”
Robinson added she wanted to make I Know What You Did Last Summer for fans of the original flick, though emphasised the slasher would still be accessible to newcomers to the franchise.
She explained: “[We] approached it like super fans, so I think people are going to be really happy. All the things that you want to see in this movie, you’re going to see in this movie …
“We very purposefully wanted to make this movie both for fans of the original who are coming to this and excited about the easter eggs but also for a new audience that can find I Know and almost watch the first one like a prequel.
“That was very front of mind for me as we made this movie. You don’t need to do any research coming into I Know What You Did Last Summer. You just have to have a really good time.”
Jennifer Love Hewitt teases ‘very different’ Julie James in I Know What You Did Last Summer
