Freddie Prince Jr. opened Thursday and expressed disappointment in working on the 2002 Scooby-Doo live-action film.
The 47-year-old actor told Too Fab he was from Warner Bros. about various aspects of the film.
“The first one had too many lures and switches. The studio wasn’t fair to me in any way,” said the Los Angeles native. “They were in no way straight, shaped or formed.”
Prinze played the role of Fred Jones in the cartoon adaptations, which starred his wife Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne, Matthew Lillard as Shaggy and Linda Cardellini as Velma.
They reunited to appear in 2004’s Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.
The latest: Freddie Prinze Jr., 47, opened up Thursday about his disappointment with working on the 2002 live-action Scooby-Doo movie, which was filmed in LA earlier this year.
Prinze told Lights Camera Barstool last month that the script he reviewed before appearing in the first film bore little resemblance to the script used at the start of production in Australia, to the point where he considered to leave the project.
Speaking to Too Fab, Prinze said the work experience was “not the best” and in fact one of the worst he’s ever been involved with.
“I’ve had two jobs that I regret, and Scooby was one of them,” Prinze said. “I’m a very honest boy man… if I’m lied to, you’re dead to me, I’ll never trust you again.
“I’ll tell you again. So some of those people will still have to be involved if it’s redone… and that’s not something I want to be involved with.
He continued, “I will only work with people I love and respect and who love and respect me.”
Prinze, who has two children with wife Sarah Michelle Gellar, 45 — a 13-year-old daughter named Charlotte Grace and a 10-year-old son Rocky James — said young fans helped him appreciate it more in hindsight.
“I didn’t really appreciate Scooby until it was seen and kids would come up to me and say, ‘Oh my god,'” he said. And if I could appreciate the experience through their soul, right – because that’s what they do, they carry their soul inside them: “When I was a kid, I saw it and made my father watch it 30 times” and they share their life, it’s your soul, isn’t it?”
After receiving the feedback from them, he said, “All of a sudden I was like, ‘Hey man, we did a good job, we did a good job.’ There are literally millions of people who love this film.’
Prinze said the 2002 film was not the film he “wanted to make”, but the positive feedback helped him change his perspective.
Prinze played the role of Fred Jones in the cartoon adaptations, which starred Linda Cardellini as Velma, Matthew Lillard as Shaggy, and his wife Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne.
Prinze and his wife Sarah Michelle Gellar both appeared in the 2002 and 2004 Scooby-Doo films
He said, “There was too much bait and switch in the first one” and that Warner Bros. “was in no way fair to me.”
Prinze said that in hindsight, young fans helped him appreciate the film better
Source: Daily Mail
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