Jennifer Love Hewitt Explains Absence from I Know What You Did Last Summer Reboot

After 27 years, the stars of ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ are aligning for a sequel, well except for Sarah Michelle Gellar, whose character remains stubbornly dead. Gellar’s husband Freddie Prinze Jr. will be returning, along with you-know-who. No, no, I don’t mean Voldemort, I meant Jennifer Love Hewitt.

However, Hewitt won’t be returning if she’s just going to be there in a “ghost of ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’” kind of way.

So, here’s what we know so far about Hewitt’s involvement in the upcoming slasher movie that found a home in the hearts of 90s movie lovers.

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In a new chat with Parade, the actress assured fans that she’s doing her best to make sure her character’s return in the upcoming horror movie isn’t something you can blink and just happen to miss.

“If I’m going to come back 27 years later, I don’t want to just be in it for five seconds,” Hewitt told the media outlet. “I don’t want it to just be like that thing that’s like, ‘Oh, well, there’s the ghost of I Know What You Did past, here she is.’ So I want to be able to carve out time to really be in it for people and to have it matter. So we’re working on it. We’re so close.”

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Hewitt also hinted that she’s in the middle of ongoing negotiations to reprise her role as Julie James in the Sony Pictures movie.

“The announcement will be so exciting when it happens, for me as well, and I’m hoping it’s soon,” she added enthusiastically, noting that Maddie Buckley Kendall’s role on the hit procedural drama ‘9-1-1’ is the primary reason behind the announcement delay. “It’s such a delicate thing, because we’re trying to deal with the 9-1-1 schedule and the movie schedule, so we’re just trying to figure it out and make it happen.”

‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ was inspired by Lois Duncan’s 1973 novel of the same name and draws inspirations about the urban legend surrounding the Hook. Per the official synopsis, “The story focuses on four high school graduates, who are stalked by a hook-wielding killer one year after covering up a car accident in which they supposedly killed a man.”

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