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Froy Gutierrez—who plays Mike, the doltish, oblivious boyfriend to Lilia Buckingham’s Cassie, one of the long-awaited sequel’s modern teens—is relaying the sense of anxiety he felt going into the role. “I was so worried that I flubbed it up,” the 24-year-old actor says.
If anything, Gutierrez is too self-effacing. Mike serves as one of a handful of galumphing male characters that get in the way of the film’s female leads—and in some ways, he’s reminiscent of the original’s Max. “I will say that I took a lot of inspiration from Max,” Gutierrez explains. “There’s a kind of vocal tone a lot of teenage boys in the ’90s had, where there’s a boyishness and an exuberance to their voices.
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