Sarah Michelle Gellar Campaigns To Reprise ‘Scream 2’ Role: “I’m Waiting For My Call”

It’s a great time to be a fan of horror, with a slew of upcoming scary movies, including some major ‘90s franchises, returning to the big screen soon. Two of those big hitters are I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream. And both properties shared one of the biggest It Girls of the time, Sarah Michelle Gellar. However, she was killed off in both series. Now, after it was confirmed she won't be in IKWYDLS after a failed pitch to return, she’s humorously holding out hope of joining ranks with other deceased Scream alums.

via: Deadline

Despite shutting down hopes of a resurrection for her I Know You Did Last Summer character, the Golden Globe nominee expressed interest in returning to the Scream franchise for the upcoming Kevin Williamson-helmed seventh installment.

“I’m not in [Scream 7]. I tried to get in [Scream 7], nobody wanted me,” she told ET. “They were bringing everybody back. I kept thinking I would get a call, I didn’t get a call.”

Gellar noted, “There’s a lot of people that died in all the Scream movies that are back. Skeet [Ulrich], [Matthew] Lillard. I’m just saying, I’m waiting for my call.” Additionally, David Arquette and Scott Foley are reprising their roles in Scream 7.

In the 1997 slasher sequel Scream 2, Gellar played Omega Beta Zeta sober sister Cici, who gets terrorized via landline and thrown off the terrace of her sorority house by Ghostface. The same year, Gellar played similarly doomed Croaker Queen, Helen Shivers, in I Know What You Did Last Summer.

After Deadline reported an IKWYDLS sequel was in the works in 2023, Gellar shut down fan hopes for a potential return. “I am dead,” she told People.

“My best friend [Jennifer Kaytin Robinson] is directing it, so we joke that I have an unofficial job, which is I am continuity,” added Gellar. “So I’m always the one telling her, ‘Well, that would happen, or that wouldn’t happen with those characters,’ so I do have kind of an unofficial job title.”