Sarah Michelle Gellar Asserts She Will Not Return for I Know What You Did Last Summer Reboot: ‘I Am Dead’
Written by laserteam on October 7, 2024
(People) – Sarah Michelle Gellar knows dead means dead.
In an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE as she partners with Philosophy to promote the brand’s Ultimate Miracle Worker Face & Neck Cream, the actress, 47, asserts she will not star in the I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot.
“I am dead,” Gellar says, referring to her character Helen Shivers, who died in the 1997 horror film.
Still, with her husband, Freddie Prinze Jr., set to reprise his role in the upcoming project, Gellar admits that she will play a small part — even if it’s just behind-the-scenes and “unofficial.”
“My best friend [Jennifer Kaytin Robinson] is directing it, so we joke that I have an unofficial job, which is I am continuity,” she explains. “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.”
I Know What You Did Last Summer follows a group of four friends who must survive a hook-wielding killer who stalks them after they accidentally kill a man.
Alongside Gellar and Prinze Jr., 48, the film also stars Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ryan Phillippe in lead roles.
The original film is based on the 1973 novel of the same name and was accompanied by a direct sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, which was released in 1998.
Years later, in 2006, a reboot was released, and then a television series on Prime Video premiered back in 2021.
