The under incorporates spoilers for “I Know What You Did Final Summer time,” now in theaters.
Main, main spoilers for whoever hasn’t seen “I Know What You Did Final Summer time” (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 will 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 received the information that I used to be coming again about two-and-a-half weeks in the past,” she stated — which means the scene was shot nearly a month shy of the discharge.
One other added scene was a throughline that related Danica to the unique film’s Helen Shivers, portrayed once more in a dream sequence by Sarah Michelle Gellar.
“That was not within the authentic script. I didn’t know that was taking place,” Cline stated. “I used to be on the way in which dwelling 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 imagine what was taking place. She then despatched me the edges and was like, ‘What do you assume?”’And I stated, ‘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, nearly each character on this film will get to have the baton handed to them from an authentic 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 stated 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 form 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 at all times been, a pressure,” Cline stated.
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 a protracted 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 stated. “Jenn stored saying from the start to me, ‘It’s a must to do one thing… And I stated, I’m lifeless. I’m lifeless. This isn’t supernatural.’ She was like, ‘I’m gonna determine it out.’ And she or he did and it was good.”
Whereas Gellar made the ultimate minimize, not each actor who labored on the movie did: Each Lola Tung (of “The Summer time 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, while you watch the scene, it doesn’t match within the movie,” Robinson advised Number of the minimize chilly open.
Whereas the director added that the actors have been “unbelievable,” she stated their sequence “didn’t work throughout the movie that we have been creating. And while you’re attempting to make one thing that’s daring, generally that occurs. However they’re so unbelievable, so it was positively a tough alternative.”