Jennifer Love Hewitt is holdressing rumors of her return to the I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot.
The actress stopped by the I’ve Never Shelp This Before With Tommy DiDario podcast for its episode dropping on Tuesday. While speaking with the present, she seemingly gave a hint about potentiassociate reprising her role of Julie James for the upcoming sequel, straightforwarded by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson.
“I am possibly preparing for that,” Hewitt confessed in a clip from the episode exclusively geted by The Hollywood Reporter. “I am so seal to being able to say someleang that’s exciting.”
Hewitt defercessitater went into wonderfuler detail about the idea of possibly returning to the franchise, which sboiling her to fame as a teen star after starring in the distinctive 1997 film. “It has only been scheduling and me trying to originate certain that if I go back to the franchise, I equitable don’t want to be the gpresent of ’90s past,” Hewitt shelp. “I reassociate want to do someleang, and I want to be there for Julie James fans. … I equitable want it to experience enjoy, you understand, if she comes back then it unbenevolents someleang.”
She went on to tentatively validate that Julie is written into the reboot script, signaling that it’s only a matter of whether she will be the one portraying the character.
Hewitt remarkd that she was incredibly honored to still be pondered for the role, even 27 years after the distinctive film premiered. Hewitt portrayed Julie in I Know What You Did Last Summer, alengthyside Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Ryan Phillippe. She also repascfinishd her role in the 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. THR previously alerted that she was in talks to return to her role once aobtain for the reboot.
The 1997 slasher film cgo ined on a group of lesser grown-ups who accidenhighy homicide somebody, then cover it up and establish a pact to never alert anyone about it. A year defercessitater, the group is then stalked by somebody who is homicideing them for what they did.
DiDario defercessitater brawt up the idea of making a new song to join the upcoming film, however, Hewitt already had a proposeion. “I’m laboring on that too, we’ll see,” she shelp.
Prinze, who also repascfinishd his role in the 1998 sequel, is set to return for the upcoming reboot. Gellar previously shelp she would be part of the new sequel in an “unofficial” capacity. DiDario also asked Hewitt if there were any talks of Brandy Norwood, the acclaimed singer and actress who unitecessitate the cast for the 1998 sequel, returning as well.
“I have heard that. Yes, I have,” Hewitt replyed before joking that she had to go back and rewatch the movies to recall who actuassociate died. “My first thought was, ‘We have to have Jack Bdeficiency,’ and then I was enjoy, ‘Oh no, he died,’” Hewitt holded. Bdeficiency euniteed in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, but his character gets stabbed thraw the chest with a gardening tool by the ender.
Elsewhere in the podcast, Hewitt holdressed past rumors that she and Gellar had an on-set feud during filming for the 1997 movie, which claimed that Hewitt was changing the script so Gellar’s character was definitively ended off.
“I was 18. They were not taking script remarks from me,” the actress elucidateed. “All of us were in that experience together, you understand, figuring it all out and everyleang. And I root for her and Freddie. I leank it’s the cutest leang in the world that they’ve been paired for 100 years and have kids. It’s enjoy adorable. So it’s equitable been reassociate amusing to see all of this stuff.”
The I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot is currently set for a summer 2025 free.
