Lola Tung and Nicholas Alexander Chavez have been cut from I Know What You Did Last Summer, a disappointing update that director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson just confirmed in an interview with People.
Apparently, Lola and Nicholas' scene was intended to be the opening of the slasher film, but it didn't "fit" in.
"In every movie, it's best laid plans, and then you edit the movie and you put it together and you go, 'I love this in a vacuum. This is a fantastic scene. But it doesn't fit in the movie,'" Kaytin explained. "It was just one of those situations where it had nothing to do with Lola and Nicholas — they are both so fantastic. I really would love to work with them again. I loved working with them. They did a fabulous job. But in the larger tapestry of the film, it just didn't fit."
Kaytin added that "It sucks because you don't want to do that to those actors. And it sucks when you love something as a scene but that scene just doesn't work in the final cut of the film."
As People notes, Nicholas had previously chatted about how excited he was to film I Know What You Did Last Summer, telling The Hollywood Reporter "I talked to the director, Jen, and I was listening to her pitch or whatever of what she thought the direction it should go in, and I was like, 'Yeah.' I was just so excited. So I flew down to Australia, and we filmed the thing. God, I just had a really great time."
Really bummed this scene got cut!
