SPOILER ALERT: This story accommodates main spoilers from “I Know What You Did Final Summer season,” now in theaters.

Sarah Michelle Gellar by no means thought there can be an “I Know What You Did Final Summer season” film launched in 2025.

“I don’t assume I had that one pegged,” Gellar advised me Thursday on the taping of the Las Culturistas Tradition Awards in Los Angeles.

The brand new film, directed and co-written by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, follows a gaggle of former highschool buddies being focused by a serial killer a yr after they have been concerned in a lethal automobile accident.

“Jenn Robinson introduced it as much as me like three or 4 years in the past – this has been an extended course of – I believed, ‘It’s such a good suggestion, however you don’t know. Do individuals nonetheless love the film? Do individuals nonetheless watch the film?’” Gellar stated.

Simply days earlier than Las Culturistas, Gellar appeared on the new “IKWYDLS” premiere alongside her husband and authentic forged member Freddie Prinze Jr. Whereas Prinze Jr. did interviews on that carpet as a result of it was recognized that he, in addition to Jennifer Love Hewitt, return for the brand new film, Gellar posed for pics, however prevented speaking in regards to the movie. Why?

As a result of, despite the fact that Gellar’s character Helen Shivers was killed within the first “IKWYDLS,” she makes a shock look within the newest installment.

“Jenn stored saying from the start to me, ‘You must do one thing,’” Gellar defined at Las Culturistas. “And I stated, ‘I’m useless. I’m useless. This isn’t supernatural.’ She was like, ‘I’m gonna determine it out.’ And she or he did and it was sensible.”

Helen seems in a dream-turned-nightmare of Madelyn Cline’s character Danica Richards. Within the sequence, Gellar is dressed as she was when she was named Croaker Queen within the authentic film.

What was it like sporting the crown once more? “It was so surreal,” Gellar stated. “Once they put that on my head and so they put the costume on after which I stood there – they’d an image of me from once I was the Croaker Queen [in 1997] subsequent to it — I used to be like, ‘Oh, that is loopy.’”

Because the scene goes on, blood begins operating down Helen’s face earlier than she begins to decompose. “I needed it to really feel actually unsettling,” Robinson stated in a separate interview with Selection’s Angelique Jackson, including, “I needed her to really feel glowy and delightful and effervescent and just like the Helen Shivers that you just bear in mind, after which I needed it to get darker and darker and darker because the scene progressed.”

Gellar additionally provided an apology to anybody who thinks she misled them once they’ve requested if she’s within the new film. “I’ve at all times stated, ‘I’m useless,’” she stated. “I didn’t lie. I don’t lie. I’m useless.”

Prinze Jr. advised me it was enjoyable protecting Gellar’s cameo a secret. “I’m fairly good at protecting secrets and techniques, so for me it’s not onerous,” he stated on the premiere. “However I had buddies who have been like, ‘Come on, man, you could possibly inform me. I used to be like ‘I ain’t telling you nothing, man. You gotta come see the film similar to everyone else.’”

Along with Cline, the forged of the brand new “IKWYDLS” contains Sarah Pidgeon, Chase Sui Wonders, Tyriq Withers, Austin Nichols, Billy Campbell and Gabriette. The script was co-written by Sam Lansky.

You’ll be able to watch my interview with Gellar beneath.