Park Record
Actress With Park City Ties In The Area For A Shoot
Brittanie Nicole Leary is in "I'll Always Know What Did Last Summer"
October 5th, 2005
Locals might have noticed a camera crew around town in the past few weeks. This month Park City has played host to the filming of a new movie, "I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer," directed by Sylvain White.
According to Brittanie Nicole Leary, the shoot has been about a month long. Leary is one of the film's stars and has some Summit County ties; she lived in Park City for a year and still has some family here. So even aside from its filming location, "I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer" has a visible Park City presence.
Leary she said she enjoys working in the area. "Anytime I can com back to Park City and work, it's a beautiful thing," said Leary. That happens a couple times a year, she said. Currently Leary lives in L.A., where she has lived for three years. She counts among her credits TV shows like "Yes, Dear," "Sabrina the Teenage Witch," MTV's "Undressed" and the Utah-based "Everwood."
Leary said she was in Utah working on the latter show when she first heard about her current project. As soon as she learned it would be shooting in the Park City area, she said she knew she had to be in it. She went to an audition and got a part.
The film is the third in the series that began with the 1997 slasher flick, "I Know What You Did Last Summer." That movie starred Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe (among others) and told the story of a group of friends who try to cover up a hit-and-run killing.
"I think this is definitely going to be the best film in the series," said Leary. The third movie features a new cast of characters and a new town, according to Leary. "It's a whole new set-up," she said, "but the same kind of story line."
Last Wednesday the crew was at the McPolin Farm shooting one of the movie's final scenes a party. Cables ran across the farm yard between the barn and the machine shed, and the actual shooting was taking place at the foot of the silos. The extras and the cast sat milling around and watching the crew work through its takes.
"I'm just thrilled to be part of such a cool franchise," said Leary. Shooting a horror movie was turning out to be fun. Leary talked about doing all-night shoots, starting after dusk and watching the sun come up over the mountains, and doing a shoot at the state fair park during the Utah State Fair. "We had to run through all these people in the crowd, screaming," she said. The scene was fun, she noted, because it was the sort of thing a person would never get to do at any other time.