Sarah Michelle Gellar knows that dead means dead.
Speaking exclusively to PEOPLE while partnering with Philosophy to promote the brand’s Ultimate Miracle Worker Face & Neck Cream, the 47-year-old actress claims she won’t star in the film I know what you did last summer restarting.
“I’m 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 she’ll play a small role — even if it’s only behind the scenes and “unofficially.”
“My best friend [Jennifer Kaytin Robinson] directs, so we joke that I have an unofficial job, which is that I’m continuity,” she explains. “So I’m the one who always tells her, ‘Well, that would happen, or it wouldn’t happen with those characters.’ , so I kind of have an unofficial job title.”
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Sarah Michelle Gellar in ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’.
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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.
Along with 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 summerwhich was published in 1998.
Years later, in 2006, a reboot was released, and then the television series premiered on Prime Video in 2021.
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Poster of the film ‘I know what you did last summer’.
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Prinze Jr. he is currently set to reprise his role as Ray Bronson in the reboot, and Hewitt, 45, is also in talks to return.
Rounding out the new cast, Diversity Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Haur-King, Sarah Pidgeo and Tyriq Withers are reported. Camila Mendes was initially cast in the film, but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.
“Jen has assembled such an amazing cast and I am so happy and excited for all of them,” Gellar told PEOPLE about the reboot. “I’ll be there with moral support behind the camera.”
As for whether she’ll be honoring the franchise — and supporting her husband — when the film is released, Gellar teases, “Well, I mean, my husband is in the movie, my best friend wrote and directed it, [so] I think there’s a pretty good chance I’ll go to that premiere.”
The I know what you did last summer the reboot will be released in theaters on July 18, 2025.
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