Freddie Prinze Jr. on What Made Him "So Angry" About Being Asked to Take a Pay Cut for 'Scooby-Doo' Sequel
Prinze Jr. says that while his casting was supported by writer Kevin Williamson and the movie’s studio, the 1997 film’s director Jim Gillespie allegedly wasn’t a fan in part because he wanted another major ’90s actor to play Ray Bronson, the love interest to Jennifer Love Hewitt’s character. “It’s not that we weren’t on the same page, I knew what the correct choices were for the Ray character. He wanted a different actor, a really good actor named Jeremy Sisto, who I know and I like and respect very, very much,” Prinze Jr. said, adding that Gillespie “made no bones about” his feelings. “There was no passive aggressiveness — which I hate — he was very direct in the fact that, ‘I don’t want you in this movie.
While Prinze Jr. says he had the writer and studio on his side, in a 2017 interview with the Scottish director, Gillespie told
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