As she gears up for the revival of “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” Jennifer Love Hewitt is opening up concerning the inappropriate feedback she acquired after first starring within the horror franchise 28 years in the past.
Hewitt rose to fame as a baby actor within the early Nineties, with roles on the Disney Channel sequence “Kids Incorporated” and the Fox teen drama “Party of Five.” She nabbed her breakout position, nonetheless, in 1997 when she starred as Julie James within the authentic “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” and located herself unprepared for being considered as a intercourse image.
“When ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ came out, everybody said, ‘Oh, I know what your breasts did last summer,’” Hewitt defined on an episode of “Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown” podcast this week. “There were grown men talking to me at 16 about my breasts, just openly on a talk show, and people were laughing about it.”
“I didn’t know what being sexy meant, and I was on the cover of Maxim magazines,” she added. “People would openly walk up and be like, ‘I took your magazine on a trip with me last week,’ And I’d have to be like, ‘Oh, ha ha.’ I didn’t really know what that meant ― it’s kinda gross.”
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The movie’s advertising definitely didn’t assist. “I was so mad that I had done my first movie and worked so hard, and the only thing that you see is a movie poster with boobs on it,” she mentioned.
Tailored from Lois Duncan’s 1973 novel, “I Know What You Did Last Summer” follows a bunch of 4 teenage pals who’re focused by a serial killer after protecting up a hit-and-run automotive accident during which a pedestrian was assumed lifeless.
Along with Hewitt, the movie helped land actors Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze Jr. on the Hollywood map. A 1998 sequel, “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer,” noticed Hewitt and Prinze reprising their roles alongside new solid members Brandy and Mekhi Phifer.
Elsewhere in her “Breakdown” chat, Hewitt credited her mom, Patricia, with “keeping reality very apparent” as her public profile grew.
“I would go to premiere parties, but I would be there for like 45 minutes. My mom was always at the table next to me,” she mentioned. “I’d do my interviews, and I’d go home … I was in Hollywood, but I wasn’t in Hollywood.”
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Hewitt’s remarks come a few month after she confirmed plans to seem in a forthcoming revival of “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” slated for launch later this yr.
“It’s never too late to go back. Julie James is returning,” she wrote on Instagram in December. “I know what you will be doing next summer!”
Hearken to Jennifer Love Hewitt’s interview on “Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown” right here. Her feedback on “I Know What You Did Last Summer” start across the 30:29 mark.
