Chase Sui Wonders Teases 'Really Fun'I Know What You Did Last SummerReboot with Return of 'Absolute Legends' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Chase Sui Wondershas fans ofI Know What You Did Last Summeron the hook for more!

Released in 1997, the originalI Know What You Did Last SummerstarredJennifer Love HewittandFreddie Prinze Jr. (both of whom are returning for the reboot), as well as Prinze’s real-life wife,Sarah Michelle Gellar,Ryan Phillippe,Anne HecheandJohnny Galecki.

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From Left: Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe inI Know What You Did Last Summer(1997).James Bridges/Mandalay Ent/Kobal/Shutterstock

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After calling directorJennifer Kaytin Robinson(Do Revenge) “a genius,” the actress went on to say that Hewitt, 46, Prinze, 49, and Gellar, 47, are “icons, and we’ve gotten to meet all of them.”

“They’re absolute legends and live up to all my expectations, which is a lot,” Wonders told PEOPLE.

TheBodies Bodies Bodiesstar said that seeing all the original cast back together more than 25 years after the release of the first film has been “incredible” and “so surreal.”

“I had to act with my contacts out, ‘cause I couldn’t focus while seeing them act in front of me,” Wonders quipped.

The new movie will feature a new cast that also includesMadelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers,Jonah Hauer-King,Lola Tung,Nicholas Alexander Chavez,Austin NicholsandGabbriette Bechtel, in addition to Hewitt and Prinze reprising their roles of Julie James and Ray Bronson, respectively.

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From Left: Jennifer Love Hewitt on March 17, 2019; and Freddie Prinze Jr. on June 9, 2016.Chelsea Guglielmino/WireImage, Vincent Sandoval/Getty

Gellar and Prinze, meanwhile, met on the original movie’sset; while Prinze’s Ray survived the slasher, Gellar’s Helen Shivers was murdered. And as she told PEOPLE in October 2024of her character, “I am dead.”

The following month, though, Gellarfueled speculationthat she might be in the upcoming reboot after all,posting a photoof a director’s chair that read “I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER"on the back. But as she shared the photo to Instagram Stories, Gellar wrote, “Visiting my man@realfreddieprinzeand my girl@jennkaytin.”

Regardless of whether Helen appears in the film in some form, Gellar admitted to PEOPLE in October that she’d play a small part, with her husband set toreprise his role— even if it’s justbehind the scenesand “unofficial.”

“My best friend [Robinson] is directing it, so we joke that I have an unofficial job, which is I am continuity,” she 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.”

TheI Know What You Did Last Summerreboot debuts in theaters July 18.

source: people.com