Sarah Michelle Gellar was harassed to join I Know…
Stubborn SMG.
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, the director of the new “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” revealed that she “tried relentlessly,” and failed, to get Sarah Michelle Gellar to return for the sequel.
“I tried, okay? I harassed her! But she is dead,” the 37-year-old filmmaker informed Entertainment Weekly as she broke down the sequel’s trailer launched Tuesday.
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson on the twenty fifth SCAD Savannah Film Festival in October 2022. Getty Images for SCAD
Sarah Michelle Gellar in “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (1997). ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
Gellar, 48, performed Helen Shivers within the unique 1997 movie through which her character dies.
“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?’” Robinson defined. “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?’ Robinson added. “And she said, ‘I am dead. I am Sarah Dead Gellar.’”
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ryan Philippe within the unique “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
Gellar beforehand informed People of skipping the sequel, “My best friend [Robinson] is directing it, so we joke that I have an unofficial job, which is I am continuity. So I’m always the one telling her, ‘Well, that would happen, or that wouldn’t happen with those characters,’ so I do have kind of an unofficial job title.”
Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ryan Philippe in 1997’s “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
Robinson additionally revealed she wished “Stranger Things” star Maya Hawke, who starred in her 2022 Netflix film “Do Revenge,” to be within the new movie however “we couldn’t work it out with schedules.”
The “I Know What You Did Last Summer” trailer options Gellar’s husband, Freddie Prinze Jr., and Jennifer Love Hewitt reprising their roles as Ray Bronson and Julie James, respectively, from the primary movie.
Gellar’s Helen briefly seems in a photograph body within the footage.
Freddie Prinze Jr. in 2025’s “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” Columbia Pictures
Jennifer Love Hewitt within the new “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” Columbia Pictures
The trailer additionally introduces new solid members Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers and Jonah Hauer-King, who play a group of youngsters which might be stalked by a mysterious stranger.
Sony Pictures’ synopsis for the film reads, “When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. A year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they’re forced to confront a horrifying truth: someone knows what they did last summer … and is hell-bent on revenge.”
Sarah Pidgeon, Madelyn Cline and Chase Sui Wonders in “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” Columbia Pictures
“As one by one the friends are stalked by a killer, they discover this has happened before, and they turn to two survivors of the legendary Southport Massacre of 1997 for help,” the outline provides.
The new solid of “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” Columbia Pictures
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, director of the new “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” WireImage
The 1997 movie was directed by Jim Gillespie and starred Gellar, Prinze Jr., 49, Hewitt, 46, Ryan Phillippe and Johnny Galecki. Prinze Jr. and Hewitt each returned for the 1998 sequel “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.”
The franchise was additionally tailored into a Prime Video sequence in 2021 starring Madison Iseman, Bill Heck and Brianne Tju.
In a latest interview with People, Hewitt stated of the new sequel, “There’s lots of ’90s in there, so get excited because the ’90s are back again!”
The solid of 1997’s “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”
Jennifer Love Hewitt within the unique “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
“And there’s lots of twists and turns. I don’t think people are going to expect anything that’s coming,” the actress continued. “It’s a really fun ride.”
Robinson informed the outlet, “We approached it like super fans, so I think people are going to be really happy. All the things that you want to see in this movie, you’re going to see in this movie.”
“I Know What You Did Last Summer” comes out in theaters July 18.
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