Sarah Michelle Gellar Asserts She Will Not Return forI Know What You Did Last SummerReboot: 'I Am Dead' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Sarah Michelle Gellar in ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer,’ Sarah Michelle Gellar in 2024.Photo:Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection; Paul Archuleta/Getty

Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection; Paul Archuleta/Getty

Sarah Michelle Gellarknows dead means dead.

In an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE as she partners withPhilosophyto promote the brand’sUltimate Miracle Worker Face & Neck Cream, the actress, 47, asserts she will not star in theI Know What You Did Last Summerreboot.

“I am dead,” Gellar says, referring to her character Helen Shivers, who died in the 1997 horror film.

Still, with her husband,Freddie Prinze Jr., set toreprise his role in the upcoming project, Gellar admits that she will play a small part — even if it’s just behind-the-scenes and “unofficial.”

“My best friend [Jennifer Kaytin Robinson] is directing it, so we joke that I have an unofficial job, which is I am continuity,” she explains. “So I’m always the one telling her, ‘Well, that would happen, or that wouldn’t happen with those characters,’ so I do have kind of an unofficial job title.”

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I Know What You Did Last Summerfollows a group of four friends who must survive a hook-wielding killer who stalks them after they accidentally kill a man.

Alongside Gellar and Prinze Jr., 48, the film also starsJennifer Love HewittandRyan Phillippein lead roles.

Years later, in 2006, a reboot was released, and then atelevision series on Prime Videopremiered back in 2021.

‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ movie poster.Mandalay Ent/Kobal/Shutterstock

Mandalay Ent/Kobal/Shutterstock

Prinze Jr. is currently slated to reprise his role of Ray Bronson in the reboot, and Hewitt, 45, is in talks to return as well.

Rounding out the new cast,Varietyreported, areMadelyn Cline,Chase Sui Wonders,Jonah Haur-King, Sarah Pidgeo and Tyriq Withers.Camila Mendeswas initially tapped for the film but exited due to scheduling conflicts.

“Jen’s put together such an amazing cast, and I’m so happy and excited for all of them,” Gellar tells PEOPLE of the reboot. “I will be there with moral support behind the camera.”

As for whether or not she will pay tribute to the franchise — and support her husband — when the film is released, Gellar teases, “Well, I mean, my husband is in the movie, my best friend wrote and directed it, [so] I think there’s a pretty good chance I will go to that premiere.”

TheI Know What You Did Last Summerreboot will be released in theaters on July 18, 2025.

source: people.com