Sarah Michelle Gellar rules out I Know What You Did Last Summer return with a perfect response: "I am dead"
Oct. 8, 2024I know what Sarah Michelle Gellar isn’t doing next summer
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I Know What You Did Last Summer’s sequel is bulking out its cast, but Sarah Michelle Gellar – one of the stars of the original 1997 slasher – won’t be returning for a painfully obvious reason: her character is six feet under.
“I am dead,” Gellar toldPeopleof her character Helen Shivers' fate at the killer’s hands in I Know What You Did Last Summer, but joked that she is getting an “unofficial job title” to help out the production.
“My best friend [Jennifer Kaytin 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.”
The upcoming legacy sequel is a follow-up to the 1997 original and 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. Freddie Prinze Jr. is reprising his role as Ray, while co-star Jennifer Love Hewitt is reportedly “in talks” to follow suit.
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