Chase Sui Wonders Teases ‘Really Fun’ ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Reboot

Chase Sui Wonders has followers of I Know What You Did Last Summer on the hook for extra!

The actress talked with PEOPLE concerning the upcoming slasher reboot on the premiere of her new Apple TV+ sequence, The Studio, which was held throughout the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival on the Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas, on Friday, March 7.

Launched in 1997, the unique I Know What You Did Final Summer time starred Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. (each of whom are returning for the reboot), in addition to Prinze’s real-life spouse, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Anne Heche and Johnny Galecki.

Requested by PEOPLE what she will be able to tease concerning the new film, Wonders, 28, stated, “It is actually enjoyable, and the forged is unbelievable. We filmed partially in Australia and now we’re ending up in L.A.”

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After calling director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge) “a genius,” the actress went on to say that Hewitt, 46, Prinze, 49, and Gellar, 47, are “icons, and we have gotten to fulfill all of them.”

“They’re absolute legends and dwell as much as all my expectations, which is lots,” Wonders advised PEOPLE.

The Bodies Bodies Bodies star stated that seeing all the unique forged again collectively greater than 25 years after the discharge of the primary movie has been “unbelievable” and “so surreal.”

“I needed to act with my contacts out, ‘trigger I could not focus whereas seeing them act in entrance of me,” Wonders quipped.

The brand new film will function a brand new forged that additionally consists of Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers, Jonah Hauer-King, Lola Tung, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Austin Nichols and Gabbriette Bechtel, along with Hewitt and Prinze reprising their roles of Julie James and Ray Bronson, respectively.

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Gellar and Prinze, in the meantime, met on the unique film’s set; whereas Prinze’s Ray survived the slasher, Gellar’s Helen Shivers was murdered. And as she advised PEOPLE in October 2024 of her character, “I am dead.”

The next month, although, Gellar fueled speculation that she is likely to be within the upcoming reboot in any case, posting a photo of a director’s chair that learn “I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER” on the again. However as she shared the picture to Instagram Tales, Gellar wrote, “Visiting my man @realfreddieprinze and my lady @jennkaytin.”

No matter whether or not Helen seems within the movie in some type, Gellar admitted to PEOPLE in October that she’d play a small half, along with her husband set to reprise his role — even when it is simply behind the scenes and “unofficial.”

“My greatest good friend [Robinson] is directing it, so we joke that I’ve an unofficial job, which is I’m continuity,” she defined. “So I am all the time the one telling her, ‘Nicely, that might occur, or that would not occur with these characters,’ so I do have form of an unofficial job title.”

The I Know What You Did Final Summer time reboot debuts in theaters July 18.