Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar step out at 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' premiere
It's the moment you've been waiting for.
The cast of the new "I Know What You Did Last Summer," including Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr., hit the red carpet for the film's Los Angeles premiere on Monday, July 14, nearly 28 years after the original slasher hit.
Prinze was joined on the carpet by his wife, Sarah Michelle Gellar. The actors met working together on the original "I Know What You Did Last Summer," the 1997 horror film in which they played friends who accidentally run over a pedestrian and are then stalked by a killer who knows their secret.
Speaking with Paste BN about the new movie, which hits theaters on July 18, Prinze recalled how he and Gellar grew close on the first film.
"Sarah and I became really, really good friends on that movie, long before we ever went on a date together," he says. "We were just cool. I was always grateful for that relationship, even before we started dating. We started dating by accident. It just kind of happened."
Prinze and Gellar, who married in 2002, went on to work together again starring as Fred and Daphne, respectively, in 2002's "Scooby-Doo" and its sequel, "Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed."
Gellar's fan favorite "I Know What You Did Last Summer" character, Helen Shivers, was killed off in the original movie. But Prinze reprised his role of Ray in the film's 1998 sequel, "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer." Almost three decades later, he now returns in the latest film, which reunites him with Hewitt and mixes the veteran actors with a new cast of stars who are stalked by a killer once again.
In November, Gellar caused a stir among fans when she posted a photo from the set of the new "I Know What You Did Last Summer." But she later clarified on "Live with Kelly and Mark" that her character is "dead" and noted she didn't realize she wasn't supposed to share the behind-the-scenes look.
"My husband's starring in the movie, and it was Thanksgiving, so I took our kids to Australia to go out there and visit him," she said. "I was sitting on set and I was like, 'Oh, what a great picture.' Then I posted it, and then I found out that they hadn't posted any pictures from the set yet, hadn't announced they started filming. That was (an), 'Oops, my bad!'"
Gellar added that it was "really cool" to bring her kids to set but admitted, "I got in a little bit of trouble."