Let’s not mince words; Sarah Michelle Gellar is a horror icon. Not only for her lead role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She’s also ghost chaser Daphne Blake in the Scooby-Doo movies, starred in The Grudge, and was Helen Shivers in the original I Know What You Did Last Summer. But she also portrayed doomed sorority sister Cici Cooper in Scream 2, which came out the same year as both Buffy and I Know What You Did Last Summer. Now, we’ve learned that SMG is hoping to get a call to return for Scream 7. But so far, the phone’s just not ringing. Here’s what she told Entertainment Tonight, via Deadline:
I’m not in [Scream 7]. I tried to get in, nobody wanted me. They were bringing everybody back. I kept thinking I would get a call, I didn’t get a call. 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.
Part of the reason Sarah isn’t being asked back is the same reason she turned down a return in the I Know What You Did Last Summer legacy sequel. Her character quite famously died in her previous appearance. We are not sure why her character’s death by slasher in one movie is grounds for not coming back, and completely ok to ignore in another, but here we are. We’ll venture a guess and say that most of the returning Scream franchise alumni are former Ghostface killers. We don’t think Scream 7 is going to go the route of resurrecting any of the victims. But it’s clear SMG wants to return to the Scream universe in some capacity. Maybe Cici had a sister? Stranger things have happened in this franchise, that’s for sure.
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