Asian-American actress Fiona Rene on her favourite movie genre, finding her roots and representation in the entertainment industry
- After her equine turn in a school play in second grade, Asian-American actress Fiona Rene decided acting ‘is what I want to do for the rest of my life’
- Rene stars in Amazon Prime Video series I Know What You Did Last Summer and says being a part ‘of such an iconic horror franchise is thrilling’
In second grade, Fiona Rene was cast as a rainbow-coloured zebra for a school play. It was a moment the Los Angeles-based actress says helped her decide “this is what I want to do for the rest of my life”.
“To get to be part of such an iconic horror franchise is thrilling,” says Rene. “It was exhilarating.” She plays Lyla Kalei, the police chief of a small Hawaiian town where the events play out (the eight-episode series was filmed in Oahu, Hawaii’s most populous island).
Writer and executive producer Sara Goodman describes Kalei as tenacious in her work, but “a human being with her own pitfalls, fears and secrets”.
The series is not a reboot or a retelling of the film, but is its own story and an adaptation of the 1973 Lois Duncan novel of the same name.
