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Perth Now
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Freddie Prinze Jr. lifts lid on Sarah Michelle Gellar's secret cameo
Freddie Prinze Jr. is "glad" he was able to keep quiet about Sarah Michelle Gellar's secret cameo appearance in I Know What You Did Last Summer. The actor returned for the new sequel almost 30 years after he starred in the original 1997 slasher opposite his wife Sarah and film fans initially thought the Buffy The Vampire Slayer star would be unable to join him onscreen because her character met an untimely end in the first film. However, it has since been revealed Sarah's beauty queen alter-ego Helen returned for a dream sequence and Freddie was thrilled to have been able to keep it secret until the movie hit cinemas. Freddie told PEOPLE he "knew from jump" that Sarah would be in the new film, adding: "We were all really excited for audiences to get to see that and get a little bit of extra love that they weren't expecting. "It's nice to know a secret, and to know how well-received it's going to be, months and months before it ever goes out there. "To hear the reaction that people have had, because I know some other people that have seen it, they're all like: 'Oh, my God, you didn't tell me! That was the best.' "I'm like, 'Yeah, it was the best one. Everybody always loves her.' To give people another taste of that, I just think was awesome. I'm glad everyone made it happen." The new film's director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson admitted she always wanted her pal Sarah to make a surprise appearance, and they even had the costume department recreate the beauty queen tiara the actress wore in the first film. Robinson told the publication: "As a super fan of this franchise, I was never not going to put [Sarah's character] Helen Shivers in the movie. And I didn't lie - she is dead ... "I'm so excited about the results. I feel like it's just so fun. We recreated the Croaker Queen crown. That is an exact replica of the crown from the original movie. I really went for it in trying to create this David Lynch-y Helen Shivers dream sequence."
New York Post
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Does Sarah Michelle Gellar come back in the ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer' sequel?
Warning: spoilers below! And we thought Buffy was slain. Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played murdered pageant winner Helen Shivers in the 1997 teen horror flick 'I Know What You Did Last Summer,' actually has a surprise cameo appearance in the new sequel, in theaters Friday. So, did Helen make a miraculous recovery, soap-opera style, even after being clearly shown as a corpse on ice at the bottom of the killer's boat in the original movie? 4 Sarah Michelle Gellar starred as Helen Shivers in the original 'I Know What You Did Last Summer.' ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Nope. Helen, who was fatally stabbed by the Fisherman in an alley as a scream-muffling parade passed by, is very much six feet under. Gellar, 48, comes back thanks to somebody's traumatized imagination. During a nightmare sequence, college girl Danica Richards (Madelyn Cline), the seaside town of Southport, North Carolina's reigning Croaker Queen, comes face to face with her foremother. 'You're the girl from the picture!' Danica, who just got a nasty head injury from the Fisherman before falling unconscious, says to Helen. 4 Helen was brutally killed by the Fisherman, so she returns in the sequel in a dream sequence. ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection 'I mean, I do have a name,' Helen's ghost, with the Fisherman's hook in hand, dryly replies. 'Helen Shivers!' chirps Danica. The 'Buffy the Vampire' star snaps back, 'And don't you forget it.' Gellar's one-off scene won't have anyone shielding their eyes in terror. The bit is played mostly for laughs. 4 She comes face to face with Danica (Madelyn Cline), Southport's new Croaker Queen. ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection 'I was Southport's Croaker Queen way back in, well, I shouldn't date myself,' she says. 'Nineteen ninety-six,' Danica quickly adds. 'Careful, sweetheart. I have the hook.' Helen ultimately imparts a chilling warning to Danica, whose group of friends is being chased by yet another bloodthirsty maniac in a spooky black raincoat. 4 Gellar attended the film's premiere with husband Freddie Prinze Jr. Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/MEGA 'You're gonna die, Danica,' she says. 'Stay in the dream as long as you can.' Gellar's part in the new 'I Know What You Did Last Summer,' which also features her former co-stars Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr., had been denied for months. Sort of. 'I tried, OK? I harassed her! But she is dead,' writer-director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson told People back in April. 'I tried to pitch some crazy s–t too. I was like, 'What if it's like you weren't dead and you're actually alive, but in hiding?' And Sarah's like, 'I was on ice. I was the most dead a person could be. You can see my frozen body.' I was like, 'Yeah, but what if?' And she said, 'I am dead. I am Sarah Dead Gellar.'' Robinson wasn't lying. Gellar's Helen is dead. But it turns out not having a pulse didn't disqualify her from donning her old Croaker Queen crown one last time.
Yahoo
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr. return in 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' trailer: 'There was no movie without them'
Jennifer Love Hewitt is once again calling out her killer — this time in the reboot of I Know What You Did Last Summer. The new two-and-a-half-minute trailer, released on Tuesday, kicks off at Danica's (Madelyn Cline) engagement party in Southport, N.C., where she's surrounded by her family and friends, including Eva (Chase Sui Wonders), Milo (Jonah Hauer-King), Teddy (Tyriq Withers) and Stevie (Sarah Pidgeon). While opening gifts, Danica comes across an envelope with a card that reads, 'I know what you did last summer.' Soon, Danica and her friends are reminded of a deadly car accident they were involved in — and kept secret — a year earlier, on July 4, 2024. It's not long before the group of friends realize they're being targeted for the crime they vowed to keep secret. Desperate for help — and answers — they decide to track down people who've lived through similar terrors themselves: Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and Southport's final girl, Julie James (Hewitt). 'You survived this once. We need your help,' Eva tells Julie. As the new trailer ramps up, we watch as a fisherman's bloody pursuit of each member of the clique intensifies, before finally ending on a chilling close-up of Julie, as she defiantly utters her iconic line, 'What are you waiting for?' 2025's I Know What You Did Last Summer is based on the 1997 film of the same name, which famously stars Hewitt, Prinze, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe. The original film, like the reboot, focuses on a close-knit group of friends who find themselves suffering the consequences of a hit-and-run they committed and covered up in the summer of 1996. Eagle-eyed fans will notice additional nods to the original film in the latest trailer. At one point, Danica is in the same Croaker Queen pageant hall where Helen Shivers (Gellar) begins her famous chase scene with the fisherman. While bringing Gellar back wasn't exactly possible — her character dies in the 1997 film — involvement from Hewitt and Prinze was crucial for the reboot's director and cowriter, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. 'There was no movie without them,' Robinson said during a screening of the trailer on June 14. The Someone Great and Do Revenge filmmaker pitched the reboot's premise to Hewitt and Prinze directly. From there, they worked closely on developing their characters today. 'This movie is about how trauma informs and shapes and changes you underneath all the fun screamy gags,' Robinson revealed, according to Variety. 'It was about figuring out exactly what these people would be like today, later in adulthood, having lived with what happened to them for as many years as they have.' For Robinson, paying homage to the original film was crucial. 'We never wanted to do anything for lack of a better word, 'gratuitous,' like for the sake of doing it,' she said. 'The way that we have built the lore of, especially the first movie, into this movie, allowed us to play with things from the original in a way that felt like it was a part of their story as well, rather than it being on top. It is very much woven within the fabric of this new installment.' Wonders, while chatting with Entertainment Tonight, gushed about getting the opportunity to share the screen with Hewitt and Prinze. 'We got the OGs back for this sequel, and they're so involved in every step of the way,' she said. 'I'm on a texting basis with Jennifer Love. She's a legend.' In I Know What You Did Last Summer, audiences will see Hewitt portray an edgier, more resolved Julie. She's no longer a teenager, Hewitt told Extra TV. She's living with her trauma as a woman in her 40s. 'I think she's figured out a way to put herself in a position in her life that she can deal every day with what happened to her in her teens,' she said. 'She's a little edgier. She's funny. She's funny in this movie, which I really appreciate. I think you just see that she's lived in this person for a while.'
