Sarah Michelle Gellar Explains Viral Response to Jennifer Love Hewitt Query

Hypothesis there was some beef brewing between the 2 scream queens blew up on social media this week, all due to a crimson carpet interview Gellar did with EXTRA whereas on the premiere of her new sequence, Dexter: Unique Sin, on Wednesday evening.

Throughout the interview, she was requested in regards to the upcoming I Know What You Did Final Summer season sequel after Gellar lately shared a photograph from the set.

Whereas she will not be returning for the brand new film — as her character was killed off in probably the greatest horror film chase sequences ever — Gellar visited the Australian set to help her husband, Freddie Prinze Jr., who’s reprising his position from the unique. She’s additionally shut pals with the reboot’s director, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, who Gellar labored with on the Netflix film Do Revenge.

After praising Robinson and the film’s “enjoyable” script, Gellar was requested about Hewitt probably returning as nicely. “I’ve nothing to do with that,” she responded, earlier than beginning to stroll away from the reporter.

The video blew up on X, racking up greater than 5 million views amid hypothesis on social media and within the YouTube feedback that one thing went down between the 2 stars.

On Friday, because the chatter began to select up some steam and retailers started reporting on it, Gellar took to her Instagram web page to set some issues straight.

First, she shared a DeuxMoi submit to her Instagram Story, during which the popular culture account additionally posted the EXTRA interview and speculated Gellar was “hesitant to reply any questions on ‘I Know What You Did Final Summer season’ after she bought in bother for posting a set photograph!”

Gellar’s photograph of a director’s chair on the Australian set was posted on November 27. Earlier this week, whereas showing on Dwell with Kelly and Mark, Gellar revealed she bought in bother for the submit — saying, “Then I discovered that they hadn’t posted any footage from the set but — hadn’t introduced they began filming. Yeah … that was an ‘Oops! My dangerous!'”

On Friday, Gellar additionally shared one other Instagram Story showing to reference the interview immediately, writing, “Aspiring actors please observe: this deer within the headlights response is ideal for when you find yourself excited to see so many elderly pals in a single undertaking however have already stupidly forgotten what NDA means as soon as this month.”

She then adopted up each posts by sharing the official announcement made earlier at this time that Hewitt was returning to the franchise.

Hewitt, in the meantime, addressed some gossip about her and Gellar throughout an interview with Tommy DiDario’s I’ve By no means Mentioned This Earlier than podcast earlier this week. Although it would not seem she was referencing the video above, she did react to rumors that “Sarah and I had been combating,” seemingly again within the ’90s.

She mentioned she even noticed folks speculate she “made certain” Gellar’s character was killed within the first film “as a result of woman actresses do not prefer to work with woman actresses” — earlier than saying she positively did not have any energy to dictate a personality’s destiny on the time.

“I root for her and Freddie. I believe it is the cutest factor on this planet. They have been married for 100 years and have youngsters. It is lovable,” she instructed DiDario. “It has been actually humorous to see all the stuff that individuals assume.”