Freddie Prinze, Jr.

TRIBUTE
A Conversation with Freddie Prinze Jr.
June 2002
By Bonnie Laufer

Tribute’s Bonnie Laufer chats with Freddie Prinze Jr. about his unbelievable obsession with Scooby-Doo.


B.L. Freddie, you must have had a complete riot making this movie, I mean who wouldn’t want to play Fred?

F.P. Well, actually in the beginning I didn’t. I wasn’t sure that the script was going to be any good and I didn’t want to see this cartoon made into a sham. But when Sarah got the role of Daphne and then I read the script, I couldn’t stop laughing and I knew I had to play Freddie.

B.L. I know that you are...

TEEN PEOPLE
Cover Story
June/July 2001
By David A. Keeps

FREDDIE PRINZE JR.'S GOT IT ALL: FAME, FORTUNE AND SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR. HE ALSO HAS A PAST. HERE HE TALKS ABOUT HIS FATHER'S SUICIDE, HIS GEEKY CHILDHOOD AND LOSING HIS VIRGINITY.

BETWEEN MAKING MOVIES AND MAKING OUT WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND, Sarah Michelle Gellar, you'd think that Freddie Prinze Jr. wouldn't have a moment to spare. But when the opportunity to go bowling with TEEN PEOPLE comes along, Freddie strikes. Fresh from a morning workout at the home gym he had built in his four-car garage, he parks his banged-up black Ram pickup and strides...

INSTYLE MAGAZINE
Man of Style
August 2001

Freddie Prinze Jr. expounds on the art of dressing simply, his style heroes, women in boxers, being accident-prone--and why he's head over heels for fiancée Sarah Michelle Gellar.

Freddie Prinze Jr. knows that size doesn't matter. At 6-foot-1, the 25-year-old actor spent years feeling cheated out of a few extra inches. "I fell off a roof and crushed my spine," he says of an accident he had when he was younger. "The doctor said I should have been 6-foot-4." But ever since I Know What You Did Last Summer in 1997, the son of the late comedian Freddie Prinze...

PARADE
"Nothing Could Stop Me But Me"
August 2001
By Dotson Rader

"I WAS ALWAYS ON THE OUTSIDE looking in," Freddie Prinze Jr. said of his childhood. "I was never accepted anywhere. People thought I was weird. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't fit in."

By the time Freddie Prinze Jr. was 18, he was a self0described loner - unhappy, unpopular, a bad student. Then, in 1994, shortly after graduating from La Cueva High School in Albuquerque, N.M. he decided to drive across the desert to Los Angeles and become an actor.

"I had to do something with my life," Prinze admitted. "I couldn't get into...

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
Cover Story: The Prinze and the Slayer
June 2002
By Clarissa Cruz

Sarah Michelle Gellar, the stake-wielding star of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and her fiancé, Freddie Prinze Jr., Mr. She's All That, are as mismatched as grilled-eggplant-and-chocolate-syrup sandwiches - the favorite meal of Shaggy, the scruffy sidekick in the couple's latest collaboration, Scooby-Doo. Gellar wakes before 6:30 a.m.; Prinze can doze until noon. She reads Oprah's Book Club selections; he devours comic books. She loves to travel; he kissed the ground upon returning from the five-month-long Scooby-Doo...

COSMOPOLITAN
All About Men
Summer 2000

Freddie Prinze, Jr. tells us who he's in love with this summer.

Cosmo: So are you the typical Pisces, you can't make up your mind?

Freddie Prinze, Jr.: No, I'm very laid back. I'm just cooled out. Pretty much everything is cool with me. If somebody says, 'You want to eat Japanese food now?' I'm like, 'Yeah, sure.' And I really want to. Somebody says, 'You want steak?' I'm like, 'Oh, that's cool.' I go with the flow and pretty much remain cool.

C: Do you like food?

FPJ: I love food. My favorite thing to do in the world is eat. Absolutely.

C: What foods do you...

PEOPLE
Scoop
December 2004



Stuffing his lower lip with Kodiak chewing tobacco ("It's my one vice"), Freddie Prinze Jr. relaxed in his trailer between takes while filming Nailed Right In, a drama about three young men involved in a struggle with a Brooklyn Mob boss. Prinze spoke with Scoop about his career, wife Sarah Michelle Gellar and...gray hair?


People Magazine: People say this is your first "adult" role in a film.

Freddie: People have to understand: Growing up as a Puerto Rican in this business is very hard unless you want [your character] to sell drugs, or be a pimp, or carry a gun. And...