Sarah Michelle Gellar Explains Viral Reaction to Jennifer Love Hewitt Question

Speculation there was some beef brewing between the 2 scream queens blew up on social media this week, all due to a pink carpet interview Gellar did with EXTRA whereas on the premiere of her new sequence, Dexter: Original Sin, on Wednesday evening.

During the interview, she was requested in regards to the upcoming I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel after Gellar lately shared a photograph from the set.

While she will not be returning for the brand new film — as her character was killed off in among the finest horror film chase sequences ever — Gellar visited the Australian set to assist her husband, Freddie Prinze Jr., who’s reprising his function from the unique. She’s additionally shut buddies with the reboot’s director, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, who Gellar labored with on the Netflix film Do Revenge.

After praising Robinson and the film’s “enjoyable” script, Gellar was requested about Hewitt probably returning as properly. “I’ve nothing to do with that,” she responded, earlier than beginning to stroll away from the reporter.

The video blew up on X, racking up greater than 5 million views amid hypothesis on social media and within the YouTube feedback that one thing went down between the 2 stars.

On Friday, because the chatter began to select up some steam and retailers started reporting on it, Gellar took to her Instagram web page to set some issues straight.

First, she shared a DeuxMoi submit to her Instagram Story, during which the popular culture account additionally posted the EXTRA interview and speculated Gellar was “hesitant to reply any questions on ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ after she obtained in bother for posting a set photograph!”

Gellar’s photograph of a director’s chair on the Australian set was posted on November 27. Earlier this week, whereas showing on Live with Kelly and Mark, Gellar revealed she obtained in bother for the submit — saying, “Then I discovered that they hadn’t posted any footage from the set but — hadn’t introduced they began filming. Yeah … that was an ‘Oops! My unhealthy!'”

On Friday, Gellar additionally shared one other Instagram Story showing to reference the interview straight, writing, “Aspiring actors please observe: this deer within the headlights response is ideal for if you end up excited to see so many aged buddies in a single venture however have already stupidly forgotten what NDA means as soon as this month.”

She then adopted up each posts by sharing the official announcement made earlier right this moment that Hewitt was returning to the franchise.

Hewitt, in the meantime, addressed some gossip about her and Gellar throughout an interview with Tommy DiDario’s I’ve Never Said This Before podcast earlier this week. Though it would not seem she was referencing the video above, she did react to rumors that “Sarah and I had been combating,” seemingly again within the ’90s.

She stated she even noticed individuals speculate she “made certain” Gellar’s character was killed within the first film “as a result of woman actresses do not wish to work with woman actresses” — earlier than saying she undoubtedly did not have any energy to dictate a personality’s destiny on the time.

“I root for her and Freddie. I believe it is the cutest factor on the earth. They’ve been married for 100 years and have youngsters. It’s lovable,” she advised DiDario. “It’s been actually humorous to see all the stuff that folks assume.”