Lights, camera, acrimony? Freddie Prinze Jr. claimed that I Know What You Did Last Summer director Jim Gillespie didn’t want him in the 1997 movie — and had no problem telling him so.
“There was no passive aggressiveness, which I hate. He was very direct [with] the fact that, ‘I don’t want you in this movie,’” the She’s All That actor, 47, said of Gillespie during a Tuesday, March 14, interview with TooFab. “So, when that’s your first job and you hear those words, it just wrecks you, man.”
Prinze claimed that the Joyride director “made it a point to single [him] out every time,” and gave him “psychotic notes” such as, “Don’t leave your mouth open. You look stupid when you do that.”
The California native noted that despite wanting to “fight that guy two or three different times,” he thinks Gillespie’s alleged behavior prepared him for a career in Hollywood.
“I’m forever grateful to Jim for being such an a—hole because I’ve never met one like that since. … No other director I’ve met felt crossing those lines would be OK. I’ve been prepared for every lesser a—hole in the…
