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 pink 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 concerning the upcoming I Know What You Did Final Summer time sequel after Gellar not too long ago shared a photograph from the set.

Whereas she will not be returning for the brand new film — as her character was killed off in top-of-the-line 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 associates 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 properly. “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 choose 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, 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 time’ after she acquired in hassle for posting a set picture!”

Gellar’s picture of a director’s chair on the Australian set was posted on November 27. Earlier this week, whereas showing on Stay with Kelly and Mark, Gellar revealed she acquired in hassle for the submit — saying, “Then I came upon that they hadn’t posted any photos 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 word: this deer within the headlights response is ideal for when you’re excited to see so many aged associates 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 in the present day 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 does 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 stated 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 prefer 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 feel it is the cutest factor on this planet. They have been married for 100 years and have children. It is lovely,” she instructed DiDario. “It has been actually humorous to see all the stuff that individuals suppose.”