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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 迷失 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 你 character struggles to find meaning in life. Can 你 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 爱情 to be a superhero"
February 1999


"I would 爱情 to be a superhero," Freddie Prinze, Jr. says, not joking. "That's my main dream." At 22, the smooth and soulful 星, 星级 of I Still Know What 你 Did Last Summer and its $72 million-grossing predecessor dreams of many things. "I'd 爱情 to be a cowboy; I'd 爱情 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 星, 星级 of television's Chico and the Man - but a career in front...