The Summer I Turned Pretty star axed from 90s slasher revival despite filming first scenes
Despite her success in hit Amazon series The Summer I Turned Pretty, lead actress Lola Tung has been axed from the 90s slasher revival of I Know What You Did Last Summer
The long-awaited The Summer I Turned Pretty release of Season three is finally here, but starring actress and singer, Lola Tung, is making headlines for another reason - being completely cut from the fourth instalment.
Lola plays Belly, the lead character in The Summer I Turned Pretty - a show exploring the complex dynamic of her love triangle between family friends, the Fisher brothers. Set to release over the course of the summer - the first episode landed on July 16.
As Amazon releases the highly anticipated series, some fans may be shocked to find the successful star of the Amazon Prime series has been axed from I Know What You Did Last Summer.
The launch of I Know What You Did Last Summer's sequel will arrive both on July 18, just two days after Belly, Jeremiah and Conrad returns to our screens, without actress Lola. Her scenes with Nicholas Alexander Chavez have been confirmed to have been erased by Director, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, who spoke to People on the pair's brutal cut.
Having planned to open the film with the actors, Jennifer said: "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"".
She added that "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," assuring the duo "did a fabulous job, but in the larger tapestry of the film, [the scene] just didn't fit".
The director went further, saying that on a personal level, "it sucks because you don't want to do that to those actors" and "sucks when you love something as a scene but that scene just doesn't work in the final cut of the film".
It come after the backlash of the recent F1 film, with producers' deciding to reduce Bridgerton's Simone Ashley's role to mere seconds. First spotlighted by fans attending an advance screening of the film, Ashley's role was recreated into a "brief cameo," in replacement of the representative role many young and POC (person of colour) fans of the sport hoped for.
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