“I Know What You Did Final Summer season” 2025 solid: All in regards to the rising stars and returning actors braving the slasher sequel

• I Know What You Did Final Summer season is a legacy sequel to the unique 1997 movie starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr.
• Hewitt and Prinze Jr. reprise their roles alongside new solid members, together with Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, and Jonah Hauer-King.
• The slasher is now taking part in in theaters.

If at first you don't kill sufficient boneheaded youngsters, attempt, attempt once more.

I Know What You Did Last Summer, out this weekend, is a legacy sequel to the 1997 slasher of the identical title. It follows a pair of sequels — launched in 1998 and 2006, respectively — and an Amazon Prime collection that was canceled after only one season.

Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge) isn't carving out new territory right here. Her slasher unfolds equally to its predecessor, with a hook-wielding killer stalking North Carolina teenagers the summer season after they by accident killed somebody in a automotive accident and coated it up. The distinction right here, as she advised Entertainment Weekly, is that she's leaning into what's come earlier than and crafting a movie that she hopes is "recent in its nostalgia."

The ultimate product is one thing of a combined bag, with EW's evaluation stating that whereas there's "lots that's gratifying right here" (and the film has its "tongue firmly in place"), it's additionally "preposterously dumb."

In fact, "preposterously dumb" is likely to be precisely what you're in search of. Teenagers in slashers are, in spite of everything, a bit infamous for being silly. So, who’re the dummies making up the solid of I Know What You Did Final Summer season?

Maintain studying for EW's I Know What You Did Final Summer season solid and character information.

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Chase Sui Wonders as Ava Brucks

Chase Sui Wonders at present stars on the Emmy-nominated Apple TV+ Hollywood satire The Studio (2025–current), during which she performs a striving junior govt.

She first turned heads within the ensemble of HBO's short-lived Generations (2021), which led to roles within the buzzy movie Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) and the Apple TV+ collection Metropolis on Hearth (2023).

Wonders leads the solid of naughty teenagers as Ava, who returns to Southport to rejoice the engagement of her finest pal.

"It's a continuation of this iconic story, and it's enjoyable and campy and sensible," she advised L'Officiel. "I play an all-American lady who has a very robust ethical code, and though she could be very broken and has some demons, she's the glue of her buddy group. I'm simply grateful that [director] Jen [Kaytin Robinson] took an opportunity on me, as a result of I didn't see women like me main these varieties of flicks rising up. And it's not like I’ve 20 million Instagram followers, both."

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Madelyn Cline as Danica Richards

Rising star Madelyn Cline started her profession in a Chuck E. Cheese industrial, however her profession started in earnest with early roles on Stranger Things (2017) and the Joel Edgerton movie Boy Erased (2018), starring Nicole Kidman.

The actress achieved worldwide success by taking part in Sarah Cameron on Netflix's hit Outer Banks (2020–current), which helped land her a task within the star-studded ensemble of Rian Johnson's Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller (2022).

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Subsequent up for Cline is a starring position reverse Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz in Marc Webb's Day Drinker.

Cline helps lead I Know What You Did Final Summer season as Danica, one of many teenagers concerned within the deadly cover-up.

EW's critic declared Cline's character to be "far and away the most effective factor right here," saying she's "genuinely hilarious because the snotty-but-lovable Danica; she has a terrific horror film scream, and throughout the one or two moments during which the movie requires some bona fide dramatic performing out of her, she nails it."

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Tyriq Withers as Teddy Spencer

Tyriq Withers, a former school soccer participant, made a splash in Atlanta's memorable season 3 episode "Wealthy Wigga, Poor Wigga." Following that, he appeared on the Hulu collection Tell Me Lies (2022) and the 2024 remake of Don't Inform Mother the Babysitter's Lifeless.

The actor will subsequent lead the solid of Him, a horror movie about soccer gamers produced by Get Out director Jordan Peele.

Withers performs Teddy, Ava's boyfriend and the son of an area actual property developer. "One thing I can share about Teddy is he is sensible," the actor teased in a chat with Interview Magazine. When requested to elaborate, he acknowledged, "Do with that info what you’ll."

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Sarah Pidgeon as Stevie Ward

Sarah Pidgeon is an alum of Amazon Prime's The Wilds (2020–2022) and Hulu's Emmy-nominated collection Tiny Lovely Issues (2023), to not point out a Tony nominee for theatrical sensation Stereophonic (2023–2024), starring in each its Off-Broadway and Broadway runs.

Her subsequent venture is sure to make waves. She'll quickly lead Ryan Murphy's American Love Story, an FX restricted collection during which Pidgeon stars as Carolyn Bessette, spouse of John F. Kennedy Jr.

Pidgeon performs Stevie, a working-class buddy of the central teenagers who works with Freddie Prinze Jr.'s Ray.

"What’s cool about horror is that there are such a lot of genres within it," Pidgeon stated in an interview with i-d. "There might be romance, there might be horror or comedy. There’s drama. I believe particularly for IKWYDLS, it’s in regards to the massive kills, however inside that, there’s a lot alternative to have character growth and laughs. The stakes are so large that it permits for extra issues to exist inside it, versus, some genres of movie which are performed actually near the chest and are very intimate."

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Jonah Hauer-King as Milo Griffin

Jonah Hauer-King rose to prominence because the Prince Eric to Halle Bailey's Ariel in 2023's The Little Mermaid.

Earlier than that, Hauer-King starred in a number of BBC collection, together with a number one position in BBC One's struggle drama World on Hearth (2019–2023). He additionally appeared in movies similar to A Canine's Approach House (2019) and This Is the Evening (2021).

He'll subsequent star reverse Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson in A Home of Dynamite, the newest movie from The Damage Locker director Kathryn Bigelow.

Hauer-King performs Milo, Ava's ex-boyfriend. Talking with Collider, the actor praised how the filmmakers maintained continuity between the brand new movie and the unique.

"It's about 30 years later, and lots of the vibe is there, however I believe additionally with the brand new younger solid and with Jen Kaytin Robinson, the director, there's positively humor in there," he stated. "There's positively a contemporary sensibility, and it feels recent.”

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Gabbriette as Tyler Trevino

Gabbriette is a mannequin, musician, and actress who carried out with the punk outfit Nasty Cherry earlier than bringing her goth-inspired aesthetic — some have referred to as it "Succubus Stylish" — to the display screen.

Alongside together with her position as Tyler, a real crime podcaster who crosses paths with our doomed heroes, Gabbriette stars in Idiotka, a movie starring Camila Mendes, Anna Baryshnikov, and Julia Fox that debuted at this 12 months's SXSW Movie Pageant.

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Billy Campbell as Grant Spencer

After early roles on Dynasty (1984–1985) and Crime Story (1986–1988), Billy Campbell performed the title position within the cult favourite The Rocketeer (1991).

He went on to look in movies similar to Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Gettysburg (1993), and Enough (2002), later scoring lead roles on collection like The 4400 (2004–2007), The Killing (2011–2014), and Cardinal (2017–2020). Most just lately, he appeared on Amazon Prime's acclaimed Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024).

Campbell performs Grant Spencer, Teddy's father and an actual property developer credited with turning Southport into the "Hamptons of the South."

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Austin Nichols as Pastor Judah

Austin Nichols appeared in big-budget movies like The Day After Tomorrow and Wimbledon, each launched in 2004, earlier than touchdown the title position in David Milch's unusual and fantastic Deadwood follow-up, John From Cincinnati (2007), on HBO.

Following that, he delivered memorable activates collection similar to One Tree Hill (2008–2012), Ray Donovan (2013–2019), and The Walking Dead (2015–2016). His current roles embrace Tyler Perry's The Six Triple Eight (2024) and the canceled-too-soon Starz collection Minx (2022).

In an interview with ET, Nichols described his Pastor Judah as "very concerned with the city and desirous to see it develop," including that he's "bold and needs his church to develop."

Of the filmmakers, he stated, "I believe they did a very good job bringing within the new solid, bringing again the OGs… there are easter eggs in there for those who love the originals."

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Joshua Orpin as Wyatt

Joshua Orpin is finest recognized for serving to lead the solid of Titans (2019–2023) as Conner Kent. Today, he might be seen on the Australian cleaning soap opera House & Away (2024–current).

Orpin performs Wyatt, who EW's critic described as "a hulking piece of beefcake."

Whereas we received't spoil it right here, anybody who's watched I Know What You Did Last Summer's trailer is aware of how issues shake out for Wyatt. Orpin himself even joked about it on his Instagram.

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Jennifer Love Hewitt as Julie James

Jennifer Love Hewitt, one of many teen icons of the Nineties, had already starred on Youngsters Integrated (1989–1991) and Party of Five (1995–1999) by the point she performed Julie James in I Know What You Did Final Summer season and its 1998 sequel.

In 1998, she scored one other hit by main the ensemble of youngster get together comedy Can't Hardly Wait. She went on to star reverse Sigourney Weaver in Heartbreakers (2001) and assist lead a pair of Garfield movies (2004–2006).

Over the previous few a long time, Hewitt has landed roles on collection like Ghost Whisperer (2005–2010), Prison Minds (2014–2015), and 9-1-1 (2018–current), together with directing and producing work. In 2010, she was nominated for a Golden Globe for her flip in Lifetime's The Client List (2010). She went on to provide a TV model for the community, which aired from 2012 to 2013.

Hewitt returns to Southport as Julie and, because the trailer makes clear, will get to play the smart elder for a brand new technology of potential victims.

"I’ll say it’s actually such an honor, at 45, to even be invited again," Hewitt stated in a 2024 Variety interview. "To be considered in that approach, to not simply transfer on to the newer, higher, youthful variations, however [to be offered] to return again and play that half is actually cool."

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Freddie Prinze Jr. as Ray Bronson

Like Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr. was one of many defining teen actors of the Nineties and 2000s, having led standard movies like She's All That (1999), Boys and Ladies (2000), and Summer season Catch (2001). Younger millennials and Gen Z audiences are probably acquainted with his turns as Fred in Scooby-Doo (2002) and its 2004 sequel.

His profession, nonetheless, has gone some unusual and sudden locations. After co-creating, producing, and starring in his personal collection, ABC's Freddie (2005–2006), he joined the inventive workers of WWE, serving to craft storylines for the skilled wrestling juggernaut. Lately, he served as a bunch of WWE Rivals (2022–2024).

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In later years, he discovered his approach into the Star Wars universe, voicing Kanan Jarrus in 70 episodes of Star Wars Rebels (2014–2018). As a voice actor, he's additionally contributed to a few of the hottest video video games of the final 15 years, together with Mass Impact 3 (2012) and Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014).

In 2002, he married actress Sarah Michelle Gellar after assembly on the set of I Know What You Did Final Summer season. They’ve two kids, and she or he one way or the other noticed the brand new movie earlier than he did.

"I believe what [Robinson and I] each delivered to Ray was much more vulnerability on this film," he advised EW forward of the movie's launch. "When the s— hits the fan once more, so to talk, you type of see how these characters absorbed all that trauma from the primary two films, and now they're a sponge getting squeezed, and also you get to see what comes out… Nothing felt compelled or faux or one thing that was a word from someone that didn't must be given a word."

The place can I watch I Know What You Did Final Summer season?

I Know What You Did Final Summer season is now taking part in in theaters.

You possibly can stream the unique I Know What You Did Final Summer season on MGM+ and hire its sequels by way of Amazon Prime or Apple TV+.

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