All about the rising stars

Chase Sui Wonders as Ava Brucks

Chase Sui Wonders at the moment stars on the Emmy-nominated Apple TV+ Hollywood satire The Studio (2025–current), through which she performs a striving junior government.

She first turned heads in the ensemble of HBO’s short-lived Generations (2021), which led to roles in the buzzy movie Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) and the Apple TV+ sequence Metropolis on Hearth (2023).

Wonders leads the forged of naughty teenagers as Ava, who returns to Southport to have fun the engagement of her finest pal.

“It is a continuation of this iconic story, and it is enjoyable and campy and good,” she advised L’Officiel. “I play an all-American lady who has a very sturdy ethical code, and though she may be very broken and has some demons, she’s the glue of her good friend group. I am simply grateful that [director] Jen [Kaytin Robinson] took an opportunity on me, as a result of I did not see women like me main these varieties of flicks rising up. And it isn’t like I’ve 20 million Instagram followers, both.”

Madelyn Cline as Danica Richards

Rising star Madelyn Cline started her profession in a Chuck E. Cheese commercial, however her profession started in earnest with early roles on Stranger Things (2017) and the Joel Edgerton movie Boy Erased (2018), starring Nicole Kidman.

The actress achieved worldwide success by taking part in Sarah Cameron on Netflix’s hit Outer Banks (2020–current), which helped land her a task in the star-studded ensemble of Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022).

Subsequent up for Cline is a starring position reverse Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz in Marc Webb’s Day Drinker.

Cline helps lead I Know What You Did Final Summer time as Danica, one among the teenagers concerned in the deadly cover-up.

EW’s critic declared Cline’s character to be “far and away the smartest thing right here,” saying she’s “genuinely hilarious as the snotty-but-lovable Danica; she has a terrific horror film scream, and through the one or two moments through which the movie requires some bona fide dramatic appearing out of her, she nails it.”

Tyriq Withers as Teddy Spencer

Tyriq Withers, a former school soccer participant, made a splash in Atlanta‘s memorable season 3 episode “Wealthy Wigga, Poor Wigga.” Following that, he appeared on the Hulu sequence Tell Me Lies (2022) and the 2024 remake of Do not Inform Mother the Babysitter’s Useless.

The actor will subsequent lead the forged of Him, a horror movie about soccer gamers produced by Get Out director Jordan Peele.

Withers performs Teddy, Ava’s boyfriend and the son of an area actual property developer. “One thing I can share about Teddy is he is sensible,” the actor teased in a chat with Interview Magazine. When requested to elaborate, he said, “Do with that data what you’ll.”

Sarah Pidgeon as Stevie Ward

Sarah Pidgeon is an alum of Amazon Prime’s The Wilds (2020–2022) and Hulu’s Emmy-nominated sequence Tiny Stunning Issues (2023), to not point out a Tony nominee for theatrical sensation Stereophonic (2023–2024), starring in each its Off-Broadway and Broadway runs.

Her subsequent mission is certain to make waves. She’ll quickly lead Ryan Murphy‘s American Love Story, an FX restricted sequence through which Pidgeon stars as Carolyn Bessette, spouse of John F. Kennedy Jr.

Pidgeon performs Stevie, a working-class good friend of the central teenagers who works with Freddie Prinze Jr.‘s Ray.

“What’s cool about horror is that there are such a lot of genres within it,” Pidgeon mentioned in an interview with i-d. “There may be romance, there may be horror or comedy. There’s drama. I feel particularly for IKWYDLS, it’s about the huge kills, however inside that, there’s a lot alternative to have character growth and laughs. The stakes are so big that it permits for extra issues to exist inside it, versus, some genres of movie which can be performed actually near the chest and are very intimate.”

Jonah Hauer-King as Milo Griffin

Jonah Hauer-King rose to prominence as the Prince Eric to Halle Bailey’s Ariel in 2023’s The Little Mermaid.

Earlier than that, Hauer-King starred in a number of BBC sequence, together with a number one position in BBC One’s warfare drama World on Hearth (2019–2023). He additionally appeared in movies equivalent to A Canine’s Manner Dwelling (2019) and This Is the Night time (2021).

He’ll subsequent star reverse Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson in A Home of Dynamite, the newest movie from The Damage Locker director Kathryn Bigelow.

Hauer-King performs Milo, Ava’s ex-boyfriend. Talking with Collider, the actor praised how the filmmakers maintained continuity between the new movie and the authentic.

“It is about 30 years later, and numerous the vibe is there, however I feel additionally with the new younger forged and with Jen Kaytin Robinson, the director, there’s positively humor in there,” he mentioned. “There’s positively a contemporary sensibility, and it feels recent.”

Gabbriette as Tyler Trevino

Gabbriette is a mannequin, musician, and actress who carried out with the punk outfit Nasty Cherry earlier than bringing her goth-inspired aesthetic — some have referred to as it “Succubus Chic” — to the display.

Alongside along with her position as Tyler, a real crime podcaster who crosses paths with our doomed heroes, Gabbriette stars in Idiotka, a movie starring Camila Mendes, Anna Baryshnikov, and Julia Fox that debuted at this yr’s SXSW Movie Competition.

Billy Campbell as Grant Spencer

After early roles on Dynasty (1984–1985) and Crime Story (1986–1988), Billy Campbell performed the title position in the cult favourite The Rocketeer (1991).

He went on to look in movies equivalent to Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), Gettysburg (1993), and Enough (2002), later scoring lead roles on sequence like The 4400 (2004–2007), The Killing (2011–2014), and Cardinal (2017–2020). Most just lately, he appeared on Amazon Prime’s acclaimed Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024).

Campbell performs Grant Spencer, Teddy’s father and an actual property developer credited with turning Southport into the “Hamptons of the South.”

Austin Nichols as Pastor Judah

Austin Nichols appeared in big-budget movies like The Day After Tomorrow and Wimbledon, each launched in 2004, earlier than touchdown the title position in David Milch’s unusual and fantastic Deadwood follow-up, John From Cincinnati (2007), on HBO.

Following that, he delivered memorable activates sequence equivalent to One Tree Hill (2008–2012), Ray Donovan (2013–2019), and The Walking Dead (2015–2016). His current roles embody Tyler Perry’s The Six Triple Eight (2024) and the canceled-too-soon Starz sequence Minx (2022).

In an interview with ET, Nichols described his Pastor Judah as “very concerned with the city and desirous to see it develop,” including that he is “bold and needs his church to develop.”

Of the filmmakers, he mentioned, “I feel they did a very good job bringing in the new forged, bringing again the OGs… there are easter eggs in there for those that love the originals.”

Joshua Orpin as Wyatt

Joshua Orpin is finest identified for serving to lead the forged of Titans (2019–2023) as Conner Kent. Lately, he may be seen on the Australian cleaning soap opera Dwelling & Away (2024–current).

Orpin performs Wyatt, who EW’s critic described as “a hulking piece of beefcake.”

Whereas we cannot spoil it right here, anybody who’s watched I Know What You Did Last Summer‘s trailer is aware of how issues shake out for Wyatt. Orpin himself even joked about it on his Instagram.

Jennifer Love Hewitt as Julie James

Jennifer Love Hewitt, one among the teen icons of the Nineteen Nineties, had already starred on Youngsters Integrated (1989–1991) and Party of Five (1995–1999) by the time she performed Julie James in I Know What You Did Final Summer time and its 1998 sequel.

In 1998, she scored one other hit by main the ensemble of teenybopper celebration comedy Can’t Hardly Wait. She went on to star reverse Sigourney Weaver in Heartbreakers (2001) and assist lead a pair of Garfield movies (2004–2006).

Over the previous few a long time, Hewitt has landed roles on sequence like Ghost Whisperer (2005–2010), Prison Minds (2014–2015), and 9-1-1 (2018–current), together with directing and producing work. In 2010, she was nominated for a Golden Globe for her flip in Lifetime’s The Client List (2010). She went on to supply a TV model for the community, which aired from 2012 to 2013.

Hewitt returns to Southport as Julie and, as the trailer makes clear, will get to play the clever elder for a brand new technology of potential victims.

“I’ll say it’s actually such an honor, at 45, to even be invited again,” Hewitt mentioned in a 2024 Variety interview. “To be considered in that manner, to not simply transfer on to the newer, higher, youthful variations, however [to be offered] to return again and play that half is de facto cool.”

Freddie Prinze Jr. as Ray Bronson

Like Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr. was one among the defining teen actors of the Nineteen Nineties and 2000s, having led fashionable movies like She’s All That (1999), Boys and Women (2000), and Summer time Catch (2001). Younger millennials and Gen Z audiences are probably aware of his turns as Fred in Scooby-Doo (2002) and its 2004 sequel.

His profession, nevertheless, has gone some unusual and surprising locations. After co-creating, producing, and starring in his personal sequence, ABC’s Freddie (2005–2006), he joined the inventive employees of WWE, serving to craft storylines for the skilled wrestling juggernaut. In recent times, he served as a bunch of WWE Rivals (2022–2024).

In later years, he discovered his manner into the Star Wars universe, voicing Kanan Jarrus in 70 episodes of Star Wars Rebels (2014–2018). As a voice actor, he is additionally contributed to a few of the hottest video video games of the final 15 years, together with Mass Impact 3 (2012) and Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014).

In 2002, he married actress Sarah Michelle Gellar after assembly on the set of I Know What You Did Final Summer time. They’ve two kids, and she or he somehow saw the new film before he did.

“I feel what [Robinson and I] each delivered to Ray was much more vulnerability on this film,” he told EW forward of the movie’s launch. “When the s— hits the fan once more, so to talk, you sort of see how these characters absorbed all that trauma from the first two films, and now they seem to be a sponge getting squeezed, and also you get to see what comes out… Nothing felt compelled or pretend or one thing that was a word from any individual that did not should be given a word.”