Jennifer Love Hewitt has actually blended sensations regarding playing Julie James again.
In a meeting with ET, Hewitt verified that a 3rd I Know What You Did Last Summer film is “in the stove,” and exposed that she’s “truthfully horrified” regarding starring in the famous component again. That worry, Hewitt informed ET, is all since “it’s 26 years later on.”
The initial movie struck cinemas in 1997 and informed the tale of a team of young adults associated with a hit-and-run that ended up being terrified by a person that understood what they had actually done. Its follow up, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, debuted the list below year.
Despite the worry, Hewitt stated that, ought to the 3rd motion picture progress, she prepares to bring Julie James “back with 26 years of agony, expertise, kickassery, which I’m becoming a word, and have some enjoyable.”
News barged in February 2023 that a 3rd motion picture remained in development, with Hewitt and her co-star, Freddie Prinze Jr. , readied to return as Julie James and Ray Bronson, specifically. After that, greater than a year later on, more information regarding the project emerged, including its organized launch day: July 18, 2025.
” It truthfully is wild to also think of,” Hewitt informed ET. “If it genuinely collaborates I do not also recognize just how I’m gon na really feel other than incredibly overloaded and thankful, yet it’s wild to think of … It behaves to recognize that individuals are delighted at the opportunity. I assume it would certainly be truly enjoyable if it integrated.”
As of what she wants to give the personality greater than twenty years later on, Hewitt quipped, “I assume the large point that I would love to do is possibly tone my mother arms a little. That would certainly behave.”
” I assume there’s power in being older. There’s power in having actually gone off and had 3 youngsters,” the starlet, that shares Fall, 10, Atticus, 8, and Aidan, 2, with hubby Brian Hallisay, stated. “There’s a feeling of, like, I can do anything currently. The susceptability that was Julie James in one and 2 certainly does not exist in this one. I’m delighted to simply reveal her matured.”
The grown-up variation of Julie James, Hewitt teased, “has actually reached go nuts.”
” I do not recognize that she’s battling, yet whoever it is is not gon na stand an opportunity; in between me and a feat double, we obtained this,” she stated. “That’s all I can state.”
Looking back on the initial movie, Hewitt stated that landing the duty “was a symptom for me.”
” I had actually auditioned for various other films, I remained in various other points, yet I certainly stated to my mother and my representative, ‘I can not such as be the lead in a film up until I go to the very least 18 or older since I intend to have the ability to function all the hours. I intend to exist. I intend to do it,'” she remembered, prior to exposing that she was originally installed for Sarah Michelle Gellar‘s duty of Helen Shivers.
” I entered to audition for Sarah’s component in the motion picture and I resembled, ‘It does not seem like me,'” Hewitt stated. “They stated, ‘OK, well, what do you intend to do?’ I resembled, ‘I intend to audition for Julie James. That’s what I intend to do.’ They resembled, ‘OK. Well, go outside. In 10 mins you need to return in and tryout for Julie James.’ I felt in one’s bones that I was much more her. When they stated I obtained it I such as shed my mind.”
Hewitt defined the success of the movie as “wild,” prior to discussing why making the 2nd installation was also much better than the very first time around.
” The initial one, I was horrified,” she stated. “I resembled, ‘Am I ruining the whole motion picture?’ I could not rest [when] we were doing the initial motion picture since I actually would be up till the center of the evening with someone chasing me and after that they would certainly resemble, ‘OK, it’s cover. Go home.’ Exactly how does one rest throughout this procedure?”
” Yet the 2nd one was simply enjoyable. It was enjoyable,” Hewitt proceeded. “I reached make her harder. She would certainly been via a lot currently and she had not been fairly as susceptible as she remained in the initial one. It was simply silly, and enjoyable, and we reached most likely to Mexico, and Jack Black remained in it. It was simply the most effective.”
These days, Hewitt is hectic with lots of jobs. She penciled a publication, Inheriting Magic, and is presently starring on ABC’s 9-1-1, which will certainly broadcast its period 7 ending May 30.
” You can anticipate it to puzzle you mentally in all the proper ways. It’s mosting likely to be extreme,” the starlet behind Maddie Buckley stated. “Things that I can state regarding this ending that’s various from any type of ending, at the very least for Maddie, is that I reach finish it OK … I obtain like a simple ending, yet it’s an excellent one.”
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