Nicholas Alexander Chavez Reacts To ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Scene Getting Cut: “That’s Filmmaking”

Although he didn’t make the final cut of I Know What You Did Last Summer, perhaps Nicholas Alexander Chavez will live to see another sequel.

via: Us Weekly

“I mean, [director] Jennifer [Kaytin Robinson] is a good friend. She’s really, really cool people, and, you know, me and Lola [Tung] had a really, really good time,” Chavez, 25, exclusively told Us Weekly at Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood Party on Thursday, August 7. “But, like, look — that’s filmmaking.”

Chavez and Tung, 22, were initially meant to appear in the slasher sequel, which hit theaters last month, alongside legacy actors Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. and newcomers Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Tyriq Withers, Sarah Pidgeon and Jonah Hauer-King. Ultimately, the pair’s footage — which was filmed in Australia and was meant to serve as the opening sequence — didn’t make the final edit.

Luckily for Chavez, he has nothing but fond memories about his time down under, even if he didn’t actually make it into the film itself.

“All I could think about was my time that I spent in Australia, which was hanging out with kangaroos, going on hot air balloon adventures over the plains at sunrise, going cherry picking with my girlfriend,” he recalled. “That’s actually all I remember when I think about that movie.”

While Chavez and Tung were announced as part of the cast in November 2024, rumors began to swirl about their participation when they didn’t show up in any of the film’s promotional materials. After early screenings of IKWYDLS confirmed that Chavez and Tung were absent, Robinson, 37, addressed the decision to cut their scenes.

“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,’” Robinson told People in a July interview. “’This is a fantastic scene. But it doesn’t fit in the movie.’”

She added, “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.”

As for any further details on who Chavez was playing, the actor preferred to stay mum — “That’s left to other people!” he quipped — but didn’t shut the door completely on potentially returning for a future sequel if the necessary components fall into place.

“You know, ask me tomorrow, I’ll have a million different answers for you,” he told Us. “The only thing that matters at this point in my career is just doing good material with people who I love and people who I believe in and who believe in me.”

Chavez, who got his start as Spencer Cassadine on General Hospital from 2021 to 2024, skyrocketed to success with a breakout performance as Lyle Menendez in Ryan Murphy’s 2024 Netflix series Monsters: The Erik and Lyle Menendez Story. The series, which earned multiple Golden Globe and Emmy nominations, shined a new light on the Menendez brothers, who were recently resentenced to 50 years to life for 1989 murder of their parents, making them officially eligible for parole.

“It was just such a huge moment,” Chavez said of the project. “And, look, I can just only speak for what it meant to me, artistically. … I got to work with Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny and Ryan Murphy. You know what I mean? Like, it was a dream come true for me. I loved it.”

As for what comes next, Chavez is currently planning a trip to New Orleans with girlfriend Victoria Abbott where he plans to paint the inside of her family’s house before eating “beignets in the French Quarter.”

After that, the actor is open to all opportunities, with only one rule: “Good script, good script,” he said. “I’ll do anything. Good script!”