Freddie Prinze, Jr.

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Interview: Freddie Prinze Jr. on his dad, Mel Gibson and violent video games
January 2000

Freddie Prinze Jr. has the same handsome looks as the famous father he lost to suicide when Freddie was an infant. Prinze, 23, who stars in the new big-screen comedy Down to You, also has something his dad (of TV's Chico and the Man) seemed destined for: a successful movie career.

USA Weekend: Your Down to u character struggles to find meaning in life. Can u relate?

Freddie: "It's kind of close to the last few years of my life. He's always messing up with his girlfriend. Every time he thinks...

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"I would love to be a superhero"
February 1999


"I would love to be a superhero," Freddie Prinze, Jr. says, not joking. "That's my main dream." At 22, the smooth and soulful ster of I Still Know What u Did Last Summer and its $72 million-grossing predecessor dreams of many things. "I'd love to be a cowboy; I'd love to be a husband, a big brother, a little brother - there are so many roles out there that I haven't even gotten to touch."

Hollywood has always been in Prinze's blood - his father, the late Freddie Prinze, was the ster of television's Chico and the Man - but a career in front...

POPSTAR!
"A super intimate chat with cinema’s sweetest
Scooby Snack…Freddie Prinze Jr."
September 2001
By Sean Daly


Freddie Prinze Jr. the #1 teen attraction at the box office, appearing in so many youth-oriented films it seems almost typecasting the he’d be assigned to play a cartoon-he’s blond beefster Fred in the big-screen, live action adaptation of Scooby Doo.

But for all his larger-than-life magnetism and his multiple-friendly charm, he is surprisingly quiet and unassuming in person. For this interview, Freddie arrived at the Century Plaza Hotel in L.A. wearing a purple overhemd, shirt (unbuttoned),...