It’s been more than 25 years since Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe shocked the world with a wonderful taboo story in Cruel intentions.
Now, the story is being retold for a new generation — but the new cast knows the OGs might not get involved.
“I understand if they don’t [watch],” Sarah Catherine Hook, who is reimagining Gellar’s role as a schemer who uses her half-brother’s lust as a weapon in the new Prime Video series. “That might be a little weird for them.”
Hook, 29, leaves it at: “We’ll see.”
The cast of the original ‘Cruel Intentions’. Bob Frame/Columbia/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock
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While she’s not sure how the reboot series will be received by the original cast, Hook says it’s an “honor” to tell this story in a new way.
“I loved this movie for so long. My best friend and I, this was one of our favorite movies together,” she says.
Recalling the first time she watched it, Hook says, “I think the first time I watched it, I think I was in seventh grade — which is too young to watch — but I was with these older girls who were really cool and introduced him to me, which I think is the perfect introduction to this movie, watching it with cool girls, and you’re like this stupid seventh grader going through puberty.”
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Sarah Catherine Hook as Caroline Merteuil and Zac Burgess as Lucien Belmont in ‘Cruel Intentions’.
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However, she did not feel pressure, and she credits the leaders for that. “They gave us all this creative freedom with the roles and really didn’t want us to copy and paste. They wanted us to bring our own take on it and that helped a lot.”
“Honestly, I was just more excited to be a part of it, just because I loved it so much.”
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Recreating the taboo tension Gellar and Phillippe created as Kathryn and Sebastian alongside Zac Burgess as her character Lucien’s half-brother was “a lot of fun,” says Hook.
“It’s wicked and delicious in a fucking way that you’re just like… This is just, I don’t know – when are we ever going to be able to do something like this [again]?”
She adds: “I think that’s part of the reason actors love what they do, because we’re in worlds that aren’t part of our reality.”
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Sara Silva as CeCe Carroway, Sarah Catherine Hook as Caroline Merteuil in ‘Cruel Intentions’.
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Hook, who next stars in Season 3 White lotusfingers are also crossed that the story will continue in the second season — and for the possibility of meeting some of the original cast.
“I hope it will be fun if this continues, if we can have more seasons [some of the original stars] make some cameos,” she says. “It would be so, so great.”
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Cruel intentions now streaming on Prime Video.
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