Iconic ‘Scream Queen’ Confirms Return to Her Horror Franchise
It’s been some 26 years since Jennifer Love Hewitt’s ‘final girl’ faced off with a vengeful killer fisherman in the I Know What You Did Last Summer series. (That was in the film’s sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer; a third film is not considered canon by horror fans, while a related TV series aired in 2021.) But with filming on an official threequel—set for release, wait for it, next summer—currently underway, Hewitt confirmed Friday that she’ll be reprising her original role. “It’s never too late to go back,” Hewitt wrote in an Instagram caption confirming the casting news. Hewitt joins her former co-star Freddie Prinze Jr. in the forthcoming film, alongside a lineup of young Hollywood talent who will near inevitably end up as roadkill. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Prinze Jr.‘s wife Sarah Michelle Gellar—who also starred in the first IKWYDLS movie—had previously confirmed she won’t be returning, because her character died. Fair enough! That hasn’t stopped the Internet from wondering if she didn’t really want to see Love Hewitt back either, with commenters reading deeply into an apparently shady red carpet moment.
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