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 collection, Dexter: Authentic Sin, on Wednesday evening.

In the course of the interview, she was requested concerning 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 among the best horror film chase sequences ever — Gellar visited the Australian set to help her husband, Freddie Prinze Jr., who’s reprising his function from the unique. She’s additionally shut mates 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 put up to her Instagram Story, by 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 received in hassle 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 Reside with Kelly and Mark, Gellar revealed she received in hassle for the put up — saying, “Then I came upon that they hadn’t posted any footage from the set but — hadn’t introduced they began filming. Yeah … that was an ‘Oops! My unhealthy!'”

On Friday, Gellar additionally shared one other Instagram Story showing to reference the interview instantly, writing, “Aspiring actors please be aware: this deer within the headlights response is ideal for when you’re excited to see so many elderly mates in a single mission 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 present 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 Stated 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 have been combating,” seemingly again within the ’90s.

She mentioned she even noticed folks speculate she “made positive” Gellar’s character was killed within the first film “as a result of lady actresses do not wish to work with lady 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 the planet. They have been married for 100 years and have children. It is cute,” she instructed DiDario. “It has been actually humorous to see the entire stuff that individuals suppose.”