Jennifer Love Hewitt, 46, was anxious about fan reactions to her return as Julie James in the new I Know What You Did Last Summer film. She admits she was initially hesitant to rejoin the franchise.
She told Vulture: “All of my friends had to talk me into it. Literally up until the last night before shooting, they were like, ‘You know you’re going tomorrow, right?’”
Jennifer starred in the original I Know What You Did Last Summer movie back in 1997, but she had concerns about how fans would respond to her comeback.
Asked why she felt anxious about returning to the film franchise, Jennifer replied: “What people were going to say about how much older I would seem than when I was 18. That’s literally the only thing I was anxious about.”
The synopsis for the new I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel reads: “When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. A year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they’re forced to confront a horrifying truth: someone knows what they did last summer… and is hell-bent on revenge. As one by one the friends are stalked by a killer, they discover this has happened before, and they turn to two survivors of the legendary Southport Massacre of 1997 for help.”
Hewitt emphasized in the Vulture interview that she felt she “worked hard on” her performance in the original I Know What You Did Last Summer, only for the public to focus on her wardrobe and body in the film more so than the movie itself. “I brought good stuff to it, and no one was talking about it. It was just ‘Boob, boob, boob’ everywhere,” she said. “I didn’t just show up to wear the little blue top and run around.”
