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Iconic ’90s stars have called — and we’re hooked.
Twenty-eight years after the 1997 slasher “I Know What You Did Last Summer” hit theaters, the cast of the sequel stepped out for its premiere at LA’s United Theater on Broadway on Monday.
Along with new faces, including Madelyn Cline, Lola Tung, Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Chase Sui Wonders, the crowds got a blast from the past.
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. — who starred in the original project together — turned the premiere into date night.
Prinze Jr., 49, reprises his role as Ray Bronson in the sequel. Gellar, 48, played Helen Shivers, who died in the OG movie.
The original Kevin Williamson-written film followed a group of four friends who accidentally kill a man. One year later, they’re stalked by a hook-wielding killer. Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ryan Phillippe rounded out the cast.
Phillippe’s character, Barry William Cox, was also murdered.
The sequel, “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer,” was released in 1998.
According to Sony Pictures, the 2025 movie follows five friends who “inadvertently cause a deadly car accident” before they “cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences.”
However, “a year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they’re forced to confront a horrifying truth: someone knows what they did last summer…and is hell-bent on revenge. As one by one the friends are stalked by a killer, they discover this has happened before, and they turn to two survivors of the legendary Southport Massacre of 1997 for help.”
Despite not being in the project, Gellar still came out to support her husband of 23 years. She donned a strapless, Oscar de la Renta butterfly mini dress and matched the carpet with a blue and orange color scheme.
The “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star accessorized with an orange leather clutch, orange pumps, and kept her long, blonde hair down.
Prinze coordinated with his other half, sporting a navy blue linen suit and loafers.
In October 1997, the pair walked the carpet for the original horror movie separately at the GCC Galaxy Theatre in Hollywood, Calif.
Gellar and Prinze first met on the set of “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” but didn’t start dating until 2000.
“History repeating itself! Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. at the I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER premiere in 1997 and again in 2025,” Gellar’s friend, Evan Ross Katz, wrote on Instagram beneath a side-by-side shot from both carpets.
Jennifer Love Hewitt, who stars as Julie James in the slasher franchise, also stunned on the red carpet. The actress, 46, wore a Rachel Gilbert black dress embellished with jewels and matching closed-toe heels. Unlike her brunette character, Hewitt rocked ginger-red hair for the big night.
She joins Prinze Jr. onscreen for the new film.
Gellar had another nostalgic run-in on Monday night. The “Ringer” actress posed with her “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” co-star, Seth Green. Their reunion comes five months after Michelle Trachtenberg, who played Buffy’s little sister Dawn Summers, died at age 39.
Gellar is currently in production for the reboot of the hit mystical drama series.
In May, the “Cruel Intentions” alum announced that Ryan Kiera Armstrong will play the new slayer. The show is set to be the next chapter in the Buffyverse.
Gellar, meanwhile, spoke out in October about not returning to the “I Know What You Did Last Summer” franchise.
She simply told People at the time, “I am dead.”
“My best friend [Jennifer Kaytin Robinson] is directing it, so we joke that I have an unofficial job, which is I am continuity,” Gellar explained. “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.”
Earlier this month, Prinze Jr. weighed in on reuniting with Hewitt on the project.
“Whatever a high school union feels like, that’s what it felt like,” he expressed to People. “You have no idea what’s changed, what’s the same. You’re excited to show what you think you’re better at. You hope they notice it. It was all those things.”
Due to the tight filming schedule, “there just had to be trust that each of us cared enough to put the work in,” Prinze Jr. continued. “I didn’t have any reason not to trust her. I know how much this character means to her. She puts everything into this girl and always has since the first movie.”
Hewitt, for her part, had some reservations about re-joining the cast.
“I’ll be super honest, I had total anxiety for 48 hours before [filming] because I was like, ‘Can I do this? Am I going to pull this off?’ It’s a lot of pressure,” she told People in April.
Despite her fear, the “Holiday Junkie” vet was grateful to be asked back.
“As a female in Hollywood, in your 40s, sometimes you can feel forgotten about,” Hewitt confessed, noting that she felt “really touched emotionally and honored that Sony would have me back, that the franchise would have me back, that Jen wanted me back, and that the audience wanted me back. It really felt like an honor. Stepping into her shoes again was really fun.”
She added that the current cast is “phenomenal.”
“It’s for them to make it their own,” Hewitt gushed. “And for me to stand by like a proud mom and say, ‘It’s yours now, take it and run and enjoy.'”
“I Know What You Did Last Summer” hits theaters on Friday.
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