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Freddie Prinze Jr.isn’t reuniting with Mystery Inc. anytime soon.

“Then, all of a sudden, I was like, ‘Hey man, we did good. There are legit millions of people who love this movie. It’s not the movie I wanted to make, but I appreciate that,'” Prinze continued. “And it made me change my outlook on it.

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Prinze recalled another “difficult job” in the same interview, recalling thatI Know What You Did Last Summerdirector Jim Gillespie “wanted a different actor” to play his role of Ray Bronson.

“He was very direct in the fact that, ‘I don’t want you in this movie.’ So when that’s your first job and you hear those words, it just wrecks you, man. It just wrecks you,” said Prinze, adding: “I wanted to fight that guy two or three different times.”

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“I wouldn’t have any of the things I have without that movie, I wouldn’t have my wife, I wouldn’t have all the other movies I’ve done, I wouldn’t have this podcast,” said Prinze. “I’m here because of that struggle and because of that pain and it was those things.”

source: people.com