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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘I Know What You Did Last Summer' features shocking cameos by 2 award winners (spoilers!)
Warning: This post contains major spoilers for the new I Know What You Did Last Summer revival. Guess we know what these two award winners — and I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise veterans — did last summer. Sony never tried to hide the fact that Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. would be returning for the just-released 2025 revival as Julie James and Ray Bronson, who barely survived their own close encounter of the slasher kind with the hook-wielding Fisherman killer in the original 1997 film. But this latest Last Summer features a pair of shocking cameos by two other key players from the first movie and its 1998 sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. Daytime Emmy winner Sarah Michelle Gellar and Grammy winner Brandy Norwood both return for the new film — which takes place 25 years after the events of the original — and their surprise appearances inspired loud cheers and applause in the screening that Gold Derby attended. More from Gold Derby How 'Smurfs' points to the dire straits of the Best Animated Feature Oscar race 'She dies with me': Shari Lewis' daughter talks Lamb Chop's final act - including a new TV show and that song that will never end Gellar's cameo was particularly shocking, because the Buffy the Vampire Slayer star was adamant in interviews that she wouldn't be joining Hewitt and Prinze — her real-life husband — onscreen, despite a personal appeal from the film's director, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. The reason for her resistance? The fact that Gellar's character — Southport, N.C.'s resident beauty queen Helen Shivers — didn't survive her first run-in with the Fisherman. "As I explained to Jennifer, I am dead," Gellar told Entertainment Tonight in 2023. "I am dead dead. On ice. "[Jennifer was] like, 'Are you sure you're dead dead?' I'm like, 'It's soap-dish dead. I don't have a head. You can't write for someone that doesn't have a head. I'm dead.'" And, for the record, Helen is still dead in the new Last Summer — avoiding the dual resurrections that Buffy Summers endured during the course of her vampire-slaying adventures. (If you need a memory refresh, Buffy was brought back to life by CPR at the end of Season 1 and via witchcraft at the start of Season 6.) Instead, Gellar returns in a dream sequence and greets her contemporary counterpart, aspiring beauty queen Danica (Madelyn Cline). Gellar's return is hinted at earlier in the movie when Danica's best friend, Ava Brucks (Chase Sui Wonder), is filled in on the lore of the Southport serial killer by a visiting true-crime podcaster (Gabbriette Bechtel), who has Helen's face emblazoned on a T-shirt. There's also a cameo of sorts by Helen's equally dead boyfriend Barry Cox, played by Ryan Phillippe — the one O.G. cast member who doesn't return. During a visit to a graveyard, two characters stumble upon Barry's tombstone and make a joke about the double meaning of his last name. Later on, Ava and Danica are being held at the police station when the latter falls asleep and slips into a hallucinatory recreation of the beauty pageant that preceded her predecessor's gruesome demise. Even in the afterlife, Helen has plenty of attitude. After teasing Danica for her Fisherman-related fears, she gives the poor girl actual shivers as her pageant-perfect face decomposes into a talking corpse. Throughout her brief, but memorable cameo, Gellar is quick on her feet and quick with the quips — which gives fans all the more reason to look forward to the upcoming Buffy revival, directed by Oscar winner Chloé Zhao. Buffy's second life will also hopefully give Gellar a second shot at a Primetime Emmy nomination — something she was repeatedly denied during its original seven season run despite the show's acclaim. Her performance was nominated for a Golden Globe, a TCA Award, and a Gold Derby TV Award for Drama Lead Actress of the Decade in 2010, nine years after the series finale aired. Prior to her vampire slaying days, she received two Daytime Emmy nominations for her breakout performance as Kendall Hart on All My Children, winning the statuette in the since-discontinued Best Younger Leading Actress category in 1995 at the age of 18. Meanwhile, her Last Summer performance netted her a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actress, as well as an MTV Movie Award nomination for breakthrough performance. Make sure you don't run screaming from the theater when the Last Summer credits start to roll, because there's one more surprise in store. A mid-credits sequence switches locations to a suburban house where news coverage of the latest Southport killing spree is playing out on a living room TV screen. Watching the footage is none other than Norwood's Karla Wilson, who had the unfortunate luck to be college roommates with Julia during the events of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. And she's clearly not over the experience all these years later. "Why do people keep trying to kill this girl?" she marvels to her husband. But then a knock on the door signals that her past and present are about to collide. Sure enough, Julia is there to fill Karla in on what just happened — and what's going to happen next. Another killer is still out there and rather than wait for him to come to them, they're going to go to him. Stay tuned for I Definitely Still Know What You Did Last Summer in 2027. Norwood made her theatrical feature film debut with the Last Summer sequel, which hit multiplexes one year after she headlined the beloved 1997 TV movie musical version of Cinderella costarring Whitney Houston. Like Gellar, she was nominated for an MTV Movie Award and a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for playing Hewitt's friend and fellow Fisherman target. The film also arrived in the middle of Norwood's storied late '90s Grammy run, which started with nominations for Best Female R&B Vocalist in 1996 and 1997 for "Baby" and "Sittin' Up in My Room," respectively. (Funnily enough, she didn't record a song for the second Last Summer soundtrack, but Hewitt did use the film to drop her own single, "How Do I Deal.") Norwood struck awards gold in 1999 with her sophomore album, Never Say Never, featuring her blockbuster duet with Monica, "The Boy is Mine." That track received Grammy nods for Record of the Year and Best R&B Song, and won for Best R&B Performance by a Duo — a victory that the singers shared. Never Say Never was also nominated for Best R&B Album, but lost to Lauryn Hill's legendary solo debut, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. In an appropriate bit of timing, Norwood and Monica are hitting the road in October for "The Boy is Mine" tour. That's also when the new I Know What You Did Last Summer will be available for Halloween streaming. Now we know how '90s kids will be spending their spooky season... Best of Gold Derby Everything to know about 'The Batman 2': Returning cast, script finalized Tom Cruise movies: 17 greatest films ranked worst to best 'It was wonderful to be on that ride': Christian Slater talks his beloved roles, from cult classics ('Heathers,' 'True Romance') to TV hits ('Mr. Robot,' 'Dexter: Original Sin') Click here to read the full article. Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jennifer Love Hewitt stuns in little black dress during rare red carpet appearance
Corrections and clarifications: An earlier version of this story misidentified Jennifer Love Hewitt's character in "I Know What You Did Last Summer." Jennifer Love Hewitt is turning heads with a rare red carpet appearance. In one of her only red carpet jaunts over the last six years, the actress turned heads in a black dress adorned with beads at the July 14 premiere of the newest film in the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" franchise. While debuting copper locks, she paired her all-black look with sparkling heels and rings. Hewitt, 46, rose to fame with costar Freddie Prinze Jr., 49, in the original 1997 film "I Know What You Did Last Summer." In the film, Hewitt's character, Julie James, was among the teen targets of a mysterious killer. In the 2025 version (in theaters July 18), the plot takes place nearly 30 years after the murders wreaked havoc on the small North Carolina town. In the film, new victims (played by Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers and Sarah Pidgeon) – who are targeted by a mysterious killer – seek help from Prinze and Hewitt's characters. Jennifer Love Hewitt opens up about aging 'as humans, we want to evolve' Hewitt and Prinze were members of a quasi-Brat Pack including fellow Hollywood stars like Prinze's wife Sarah Michelle Gellar, whom he met while filming the first movie. Ryan Phillippe, Johnny Galecki and Anne Heche also starred in the original. Monica Lewinsky stuns for rare red carpet appearance at 'Good Night, and Good Luck' Both the "Last Summer" series and 1998's "Can't Hardly Wait" became cult classics, cementing Hewitt as a '90s teen idol, but Hewitt got candid last year about the public's response to how she grows older. Though the actress said "it's not personally hard" for her to embrace aging, for fans, it's a different story. "I feel like fans pick … this age that they love that they think represents you, and you're never supposed to grow beyond that," she told Fox News, referencing a quote from Taylor Swift's documentary "Miss Americana" in which the pop star says something similar. "People seem to have a really hard time accepting that … I don't look that way anymore," Hewitt said. "Whatever it is, you just want to have the freedom to be whoever you are at that age," Hewitt added. "And it's hurtful sometimes when people reject you as you are verbally on Instagram or the internet because they're having a hard time adjusting to it." Contributing: KiMi Robinson, Anna Kaufman This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Jennifer Love Hewitt stuns on red carpet Solve the daily Crossword
USA Today
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Jennifer Love Hewitt stuns in little black dress during rare red carpet appearance
Jennifer Love Hewitt is turning heads with a rare red carpet appearance. In one of her only red carpet jaunts over the last six years, the actress turned heads in a black dress adorned with beads at the July 14 premiere of the newest film in the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" franchise. While debuting copper locks, she paired her all-black look with sparkling heels and rings. Hewitt, 46, rose to fame with costar Freddie Prinze Jr., 49, in the original 1997 film "I Know What You Did Last Summer." In the film, Hewitt's character, Helen Shivers, was among the teen targets of a mysterious killer. In the 2025 version (in theaters July 18), the plot takes place nearly 30 years after the murders wreaked havoc on the small North Carolina town. In the film, new victims (played by Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers and Sarah Pidgeon) – who are targeted by a mysterious killer – seek help from Prinze and Hewitt's characters. Jennifer Love Hewitt opens up about aging 'as humans, we want to evolve' Hewitt and Prinze were members of a quasi-Brat Pack including fellow Hollywood stars like Prinze's wife Sarah Michelle Gellar, whom he met while filming the first movie. Ryan Phillippe, Johnny Galecki and Anne Heche also starred in the original. Monica Lewinsky stuns for rare red carpet appearance at 'Good Night, and Good Luck' Both the "Last Summer" series and 1998's "Can't Hardly Wait" became cult classics, cementing Hewitt as a '90s teen idol, but Hewitt got candid last year about the public's response to how she grows older. Though the actress said "it's not personally hard" for her to embrace aging, for fans, it's a different story. "I feel like fans pick … this age that they love that they think represents you, and you're never supposed to grow beyond that," she told Fox News, referencing a quote from Taylor Swift's documentary "Miss Americana" in which the pop star says something similar. "People seem to have a really hard time accepting that … I don't look that way anymore," Hewitt said. "Whatever it is, you just want to have the freedom to be whoever you are at that age," Hewitt added. "And it's hurtful sometimes when people reject you as you are verbally on Instagram or the internet because they're having a hard time adjusting to it." Contributing: KiMi Robinson
Winnipeg Free Press
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
No last stop in sight for Streetcar
Stanley, Blanche and, of course, Stella! Nearly 80 years since Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden and director Elia Kazan made A Streetcar Named Desire the stuff of theatre legend, the play that Tennessee Williams often said was the best work of his illustrious career refuses to slow down. 'I was reading in a book that before COVID, somewhere in the world, A Streetcar Named Desire was playing every hour,' says George Toles, who is directing the Pulitzer-winning drama for the independent theatre company the 28th Minute. Arthur MacKinnon photo From left: Kevin Ramberran, Heather Roberts, Justin Fry and Sophie George star in Tennessee Williams' most famous work. 'Kazan said that if it's cast properly, it always works, and that's because of its dramatic shape, its characterizations, its vitality, its humour.' When the play debuted in 1947, it disinterred deeply rooted taboos, paving the way for a stream of theatre — sweaty, lurid, streetwise and feverishly realistic about the politics of sex — that forever changed the form, adds Toles, a longtime film and theatre professor at the University of Manitoba who has directed Williams' Confessional (2018) and Suddenly, Last Summer (2014) for the 28th Minute. 'The emotional challenges it brings up have in no sense been resolved, tamed or domesticated,' the director says. Over the course of an hour-long roundtable, the director and his principal cast — Heather Roberts, Justin Fry, Sophie George and Kevin Ramberran — could hardly contain their enthusiasm for a piece of work Toles describes as having a 'primordial energy,' achieved by its mingling of poetry and realistic prose. In Williams' hands, the two were one in the same. Roberts, who takes on the indelible role of Blanche DuBois, says there's no character she's encountered in her career more intricately layered and challenging to reconstruct than the southern educator. 'I think Blanche is always the smartest person in the room. I feel she's constantly speaking butterfly language to caterpillar people,' says Roberts. It's a role that actors often dream of taking on — that is, until they're tasked with embodying DuBois' raw emotion on a nightly basis. In Truly, Madly, Stephen Galloway's book on Vivian Leigh's tumultuous marriage to Laurence Olivier, he quotes Leigh as saying that playing DuBois 'tipped me into madness,' Roberts has maintained her affection for DuBois. She says the character reveals Williams' intent to craft Streetcar as 'a plea for the understanding of delicate people.' 'I feel if there's a question in this play, it's how to stay soft in a hard world. How do you maintain the vision of beauty and wonder and not fall prey to those external, rocky influences?' Fry, who plays Stanley Kowalski, a role immortalized by Brando, extends Roberts' thought by considering the play as an exploration of methods of survival. 'Stanley is very much about practicality,' says Fry, who has long yearned to portray the brutish young man. 'Being able to survive in this world means needing to be focused on the right things, and poetry is not one of them.' 'As much as Blanche lives for the hope of it all, she does fail at practicality,' says Roberts. 'I would say that the same question of survival emerges for Stella,' says Toles, who believes the character's method of self-preservation is in self-censorship and selective invisibility amid the chaos around her. 'One of the most challenging parts for me in playing her is living in the quiet. Stella says, 'I just got used to being quiet because he never gave me a chance to talk.' That's difficult as an actor to play, especially from the start. So being able to find the emotions Stella is feeling, not just what she's saying. The most helpful thing for me is approaching her without any judgment.' The omnipresence of impending doom and the whims required to evade it suffuse the production, possibly because when he wrote Streetcar, Williams, who was 36, was under the impression that he was dying. 'Without that sense of fatigue and that idea of imminently approaching death, I doubt I could have created Blanche DuBois,' the writer, who wouldn't have a funeral until 1983, told Esquire's Rex Reed in 1971, on the occasion of the playwright's 60th birthday. 'Death haunts this play for sure,' agrees Toles. The 28th Minute mounts one production every year, with each performance serving as a showcase for its cast and crew, who prepare in a basement studio at the University of Manitoba. Under Toles' tutelage, each participant brings a studious approach to both character and craft, often remaining for hours after rehearsal finishes to fine-tune their performances. By producing carefully selected works by playwrights such as Annie Baker, Kenneth Lonergan and Will Eno, the company sets its actors up for career-altering roles. Weekly A weekly look at what's happening in Winnipeg's arts and entertainment scene. Fry made his Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre debut earlier this season in the backcourt dramedy King James, parlaying years of success in indie settings to a starting role for the province's largest company. For the actor, who is currently pursuing a master's degree in counselling psychology, the role of the intermittently stable Kowalski provides a professional opportunity for personal development. 'When you work with fictitious people written this well, what you have is really a study of human behaviour and understanding who we are,' Fry says. For Toles, who calls it his favourite play, Streetcar comes as close as any work of modern theatre to answering that eternal question. Ben WaldmanReporter Ben Waldman is a National Newspaper Award-nominated reporter on the Arts & Life desk at the Free Press. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Ben completed three internships with the Free Press while earning his degree at Ryerson University's (now Toronto Metropolitan University's) School of Journalism before joining the newsroom full-time in 2019. Read more about Ben. Every piece of reporting Ben produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. 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Pink Villa
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
From Park Hyung Sik's Twelve to Lee Jae Wook's Last Summer: Plot, cast, and release plans of most anticipated 2025 KBS K-dramas
The second half of 2025 is shaping up to be a golden season for K-drama enthusiasts, with several high-profile KBS releases on the horizon. From emotionally intense love stories to mystical fantasy and action-packed thrillers, a diverse lineup of dramas is set to hit screens. These upcoming series feature top-tier actors, unique plots, and bold storytelling. And they are ready to hook audiences worldwide. Here's an in-depth look at the most awaited K-dramas of the coming months and what to expect from each. Twelve Expected to premiere in August 2025, Twelve is a supernatural fantasy series unlike any other. The cast features Ma Dong Seok, Park Hyung Sik, Seo In Guk, and more. This high-stakes drama reinterprets the concept of the Eastern zodiac animals as celestial warriors living undercover among humans. The premise revolves around twelve divine beings: angels representing the zodiac signs. They once sealed away a powerful evil that threatened the Korean Peninsula. After centuries of peace, signs of darkness re-emerge, hinting that the old evil is awakening once again. The twelve angels must now reunite in their human forms to stop the chaos and fulfill their sacred mission. Packed with mythology, moral dilemmas, and intense action, Twelve promises to be one of the year's most visually stunning and narratively rich dramas. Eun Soo's Good Day Set for a release window between August and November 2025, Eun Soo's Good Day is a crime-thriller. It marks Lee Young Ae 's highly anticipated return to the small screen, with Kim Young Kwang co-starring. The story follows Kang Eun Soo, a regular housewife leading a modest life, until she stumbles upon a small bag of dr*gs on the street. Faced with mounting medical bills for her ailing husband and no financial support, she decides to sell them to fund his treatment. But her desperate decision throws her headfirst into the deadly world of narcotics and organized crime. As the consequences of her actions spiral out of control, Eun Soo must confront betrayal, fear, and moral compromise. The series explores the lengths one might go to for love and survival. It offers a gripping portrayal of a woman's transformation under pressure. Last Summer Also eyeing a release in late 2025, possibly November, Last Summer stars Lee Jae Wook and Choi Sung Eun. The series is an emotionally charged melodrama that tackles love, guilt, and mistaken identity. The story centers on Do Ha and Ha Kyung, two childhood friends with a complicated past. Years ago, during one tragic summer, Ha Kyung's call led Do Yeong, Do Ha's twin brother, to a fatal accident while rushing to her side. In the aftermath, Do Ha took on his brother's identity to shield her from the pain, only to deepen the emotional damage. Now, years later, Do Ha returns to Korea with a mission: to confront the past, tell the truth, and mend his broken relationship with Ha Kyung. As their paths cross once again, the drama dives deep into forgiveness, emotional healing, and the blurred line between love and guilt. Dear Bandit Looking ahead to January 2026, Dear Bandit is already creating early buzz. This is all thanks to its fantasy-fusion plot and charismatic leads Nam Ji Hyun and Moon Sang Min. The series follows the quirky tale of a woman who unintentionally becomes a bandit. Her fate becomes tangled with that of a royal prince assigned to capture her. However, instead of bringing her to justice, he finds himself intrigued and enchanted. A magical event causes the two to swap souls. It forces them to navigate palace politics and criminal underworlds in each other's bodies. The series will bring a mix of comedy, adventure, and heartwarming romance. Dear Bandit promises an engaging watch for those who enjoy genre-bending stories filled with unexpected twists and layered characters. Whether you're drawn to fantasy epics with spiritual battles, thrillers grounded in harsh realities, or romantic tales of redemption and second chances, there's something for everyone. The upcoming K-drama lineup for late 2025 and early 2026 is full of promise.
