'I Know What You Did Last Summer' on Amazon Prime is a reboot, however one of its stars, Fiona Rene, says it takes the horror story to another level.
Say what you will about TV and film reboots, but I Know What You Did Last Summer celebrity Fiona Rene understands the price in this specific reboot on Amazon Prime. You would possibly even call it a immediately up re-imagining of the 1997 movie that gave birth to a film franchise.
And in an unique interview with Distractify, Fiona dove into what it manner to be a part of a horror remake and the way she thinks the display stomps on horror tropes and stereotypes you concept you would have to see in TV presentations and films forever.
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Fiona Rene plays the police chief in 'I Know What You Did Last Summer.'
Before I Know What You Did Last Summer, Fiona was in Stumptown as a detective. In this display, she plays legislation enforcement again, as native police leader Lyla. The display is a contemporary take on the 1997 film of the same name and follows a group of friends who care for the fallout and consequences of an accidental hit-and-run.
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But Fiona's personality is person who wasn't in the movie and she has ties to the father of the hit-and-run victim. In some ways, she's as important to the tale as the teenagers involved in the twist of fate. Although Fiona could not let us know what occurs to her persona within the display, she did reveal that the way in which the murders play out isn't what you'd be expecting.
"I don't want to give anything away. But I know things about the show, what happens in episodes in Season 1, that I'm like, this is not the direction that you [typically go], when it comes to male versus female, when it comes to male and female relationships, [and] when it comes to who dies first," she shared. "Or, you know, the woman running from the man with the boobs bouncing around ... it is not any of those tropes. So I'm so stoked by that."
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Fiona is considering reboots after 'I Know What You Did Last Summer.'
To some, the phrase "reboot" straight away makes them balk. Reboots, revivals, or whatever else you may name them, are on occasion shoddy re-tellings of a tale you may already really feel you know smartly.
I Know What You Did Last Summer is what Fiona known as a "reboot of a reboot," since it's primarily based on the film, which was once already based totally on the 1973 Lois Duncan novel. And after being a part of it, she says that a few of her preconceived notions of reboots have shifted.
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"Time changes everything," Fiona said. She explained that she might have as soon as been towards reboots since they can take away from the impact of the original film or TV display. But she has an open thoughts about it now, particularly the place I Know What You Did Last Summer is worried.
"Now I'm like, 'Oh, let's see how this interpretation of this story for this time in this space differs from then,'" Fiona added. "And now I kind of find it intriguing, and I'm interested, and I'm a lot less critical."
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'I Know What You Did Last Summer' shows a better representation within the horror genre.
Where I Know What You Did Last Summer would possibly look like a typical teenager horror TV show, there are components which set it with the exception of your standard slasher. The forged is diverse in both race and sexual orientation. In fact, there is not truly an outright point out of what different characters' sexual orientations are and it is refreshing.
Fiona defined the way it feels like the series' showrunner and writers are acutely aware of no longer falling on old tropes that might be found in different horror TV shows or films.
"The whole entire team is so cognizant of representation and not falling on the trope," Fiona stated of horror motion pictures killing off minorities in an instant and maintaining the white directly characters for as long as imaginable.
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Fiona Rene has a protracted history with horror and teaching appearing.
Well before she was solid in I Know What You Did Last Summer, Fiona had a love for horror. She created multiple immersive haunted house studies and she or he has labored as an artist with prosthetics as neatly.
Fiona additionally coaches acting thru large teams and smaller one-on-one periods along with her performing grasp elegance, Method for Being: Acting in Immersive Environments.
She explained her classes are "for actors and non-actors who are just storytellers, who want to be able to play with the concept of character, and how that character transitions between roles."
The classes are a chance for other folks to learn from someone who has spent years within the leisure trade in various roles. And if you want to see Fiona's skill in motion, you can catch her on I Know What You Did Last Summer in the intervening time.
Watch I Know What You Did Last Summer on Fridays on Amazon Prime.
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