Freddie Prinze Jr. on disappointment making Scooby-Doo film: ‘Too much bait and switch’
Freddie Prinze Jr. Opens Up About His Initial Disappointment Making The 2002 Live-Action Scooby-Doo Movie: ‘There Was Too Much Bait-and-Switch’
Freddie Prinze Jr. spoke Thursday about his disappointment at working on the 2002 live-action film Scooby-Doo.
The 47-year-old actor said too fabulous that Warner Bros. misled him regarding multiple aspects of the film.
“There was too much bait and switch in the first one, the studio was not honest with me in any way,” said the Los Angeles native. “They weren’t straightforward in any way, shape, or form.”
Prinze played the role of Fred Jones in the adaptations of the cartoon, which co-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, spoke Thursday about his disappointment working on the 2002 live-action film Scooby-Doo. Pictured earlier this year in Los Angeles
Prinze said last month Bar stool with camera of lights that the script he had reviewed before appearing in the first film bore little resemblance to the one used when production began in Australia, to the point that he considered leaving the project.
Speaking to Too Fab, Prinze said the professional experience was “not the best” and in fact one of the worst he’s been involved with.
“I’ve been on two jobs that I regret doing and Scooby was one of them,” Prinze said. ‘I’m a real honest guy, man… when they lie to me, you’re dead to me, I don’t trust you anymore.
I’m telling you, never again. So some of those people would still have to be involved if it was redone… and that’s not a business I want to get involved in.’
He continued: “I’m only going to work with people that 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 have helped him appreciate him better in retrospect.
“I didn’t fully appreciate Scooby until I saw him and the kids came up to me and were like, ‘Oh my gosh,'” he said. “And when I was able to appreciate the experience through their souls, right, because that’s what they’re doing, they’re carrying their souls,” “When I was a kid, I saw this and I had my father watch it 30 times.” “and they’re sharing their life, that’s your soul, right?”
After receiving feedback from them, he said, “All of a sudden, I was like, ‘Hey man, we did good, we did good.” There are legitimate millions of people who love this movie.
Prinze said that the 2002 film was not the movie he “wanted to make”, but the positive feedback helped him change his perspective.
Prinze played the role of Fred Jones in the adaptations of the cartoon, which co-starred Linda Cardellini as Velma, Matthew Lillard as Shaggy, and his wife Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne.
Prinze and his wife Sarah Michelle Gellar appeared in the 2002 and 2004 Scooby-Doo movies.
He said: ‘There was too much bait and switch in the first one’ and that Warner Bros. ‘wasn’t honest with me in any way, shape or form’
Prinze said that the young fans helped him better appreciate the film in retrospect.