Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt survived the original “I Know What You Did Last Summer” — however they will’t escape from new fan theories.
Twenty-eight years after the 1997 slasher hit theaters, the film returned with a sequel on July 18.
Along with new faces, together with Madelyn Cline, Lola Tung, Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Chase Sui Wonders, audiences acquired the final word blast from the previous.
Prinze Jr., 49, reprised his position as Ray Bronson, whereas Hewitt, 46, introduced again the enduring Julie James.
Nevertheless, on Saturday, one social media prompt that the celebs didn’t movie their scenes collectively this time round.
“Okay guys. Let’s spark a debate right here,” they posted on X. “Do you ACTUALLY assume Jennifer Love Hewitt & Freddie Prinze Jr. filmed their scenes collectively for ‘I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER’ (2025)?! Persons are beginning to discover the ‘cuts and separate pictures’. That is an excessive amount of lol.”
The Sony reboot’s director, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, shortly cleared up any confusion.
“They completely shot their scenes collectively. Hope this helps,” she wrote on X with a coronary heart emoji.
The unique poster apologized to the filmmaker and shared that they felt embarrassed.
Robinson, 37, responded, “No apology essential! I completely get why individuals may assume that reason behind a number of the protection however they’re completely appearing off one another. It was electrical!”
Regardless of the pair filming their scenes collectively, Prinze Jr. revealed he hadn’t seen Hewitt since capturing the 1998 sequel, “I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer season.”
“We run in numerous circles,” the actor advised Variety on Saturday. “I hadn’t seen her since we wrapped the second film in ’98, however we care so much about these characters, and it was all nonetheless there.”
“After we completed that first scene, we had an opportunity to say, ‘Oh, you have got children. And you’ve got children.’ Actually, I feel the primary scene we share on this film, the place Ray and Julie confront the truth of their relationship, is the very best work we’ve carried out of all three,” Prinze Jr. continued. “I’m actually pleased with it. Our director, Jenn Robinson, three-dimensionalized these characters.”
The “She’s All That” alum tied the knot together with his “I Know What You Did Final Summer season” co-star, Sarah Michelle Gellar, in 2002. The pair share children Charlotte, 15, and Rocky, 12.
Hewitt, in the meantime, married her “The Shopper Checklist” co-star Brian Hallisay in 2013. The couple are dad and mom to Autumn, 11, Atticus, 10, and Aidan, 3.
There was rumors of a decades-long feud between Hewitt and Gellar, 48.
On Friday, the “Vacation Junkie” actress revealed she hasn’t kept in touch together with her former co-star since starring within the 1997 undertaking.
“I actually don’t even know what that was or how that each one got here to be,” Hewitt told Vulture. “I simply assume individuals don’t need the narrative to be simple. Why will we at all times need to be towards one another and out for one another.”
“I haven’t seen Sarah,” she defined. “Actually, we’ve not talked since I noticed her at 18 years outdated when the primary film got here out. That’s why it’s so humorous to me. Folks have been like, ‘Say one thing again.’ And I’m like, ‘What am I going to say? I’ve not seen her.’ On my facet, we’re good. I do not know the place that is coming from.”
Within the unique horror movie, Gellar played Helen Shivers, the wonder queen who was murdered. Ryan Phillippe starred as Barry William Cox, who was additionally killed the primary time round.
The “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” alum addressed rumors of bad blood after she and Hewitt didn’t pose collectively for photos on the red carpet final week.
“For everybody asking — I by no means obtained to see @jenniferlovehewitt, who’s unbelievable within the film. I used to be inside with my children when the large carpet occurred. And sadly, JLH didn’t come to the after-party,” Gellar wrote on Instagram on the time.
“When you have ever been to one in all these, it’s loopy,” she continued. “I sadly didn’t get pics with a lot of the solid. However that doesn’t change how wonderful I feel all of them are. Sadly, some issues occur solely in actual life and never on-line.”
Gellar instead posed for pictures with Prinze Jr. and her former “Buffy” co-star, Seth Inexperienced.
She additionally snapped photos with Robinson, and the slasher’s new star, Cline.
Hewitt beforehand addressed the net hypothesis in December.
“I simply heard that there’s this entire factor the place they assume that Sarah and I have been preventing or one thing. There’s all these items on the market,” she mentioned on Tommy DiDario’s “I’ve Never Said This Before” podcast.
“I’ve actually loved going and attempting to learn the stuff now and be like, ‘What are individuals saying about once we did the film earlier than, now, all of that stuff?’” Hewitt continued. “Any individual the opposite day was like, ‘Yeah, I feel Julie made certain that she was killed as a result of woman actresses don’t prefer to work with woman actresses.’ I used to be like, ‘What are you speaking about?’”
“I used to be 18,” the “Occasion of 5” alum mentioned. “They weren’t taking script notes from me guys. Like what are you speaking about?”
That very same month, Gellar was asked if Hewitt would return for the brand new “I Know What You Did Final Summer season” movie.
“I’ve nothing to do with that,” she responded earlier than strolling away from the interviewer. Gellar later clarified why she left on her Instagram Tales.
“Aspiring actors please word: This ‘deer within the headlights’ response is ideal for when you find yourself excited to see so many aged associates in a single undertaking however have already stupidly forgotten what NDA means as soon as this month,” she penned beneath a shot from the movie’s Australian set.
Hewitt additionally confirmed that the whole solid obtained alongside nice on set within the ’90s.
“All of us have been in that have collectively, type of figuring all of it out and every part,” she recalled. “I root for her and Freddie and assume it’s the cutest factor on this planet that they’ve been married for 100 years and have children. It’s lovable. So yeah it’s been actually humorous to see all these items that folks assume.”
This time round, Prinze Jr. had simply nearly as good of an expertise.
“No matter a highschool union looks like, that’s what it felt like,” he advised People earlier this month. “You haven’t any concept what’s modified, what’s the identical. You’re excited to indicate what you assume you’re higher at. You hope they discover it. It was all these issues.”
