Sarah Michelle Gellar has shared that she wants to reprise her role from Scream 2, with the star adding that she was “waiting for [her] call”.
The actor played Cici Cooper in the second instalment in the horror series, with the character – a student at Windsor College – being brutally murdered by the villainous Ghostface as she is thrown from the terrace of her sorority house.
Nearly three decades on from the film, Kevin Williamson’s franchise is still going on strong as it prepares to release its seventh entry next year, with several former cast members such as Scott Foley and Matthew Lillard set to return despite their previous characters being deceased.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Gellar shared that she has long harboured hopes of returning to the franchise either as Cici once more or a new character, saying: “I’m not in [Scream 7]. I tried to get in [Scream 7], [but] 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.”
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While Gellar expressed an interest in returning to the Scream series, it was recently claimed that the actor turned down the opportunity to reprise her role as Helen Shivers in the upcoming legacy sequel to I Know What You Did Last Summer, which is due to be released in July.
“I tried [to have Gellar return], okay?” shared writer-director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. “I harassed her! But she [Helen] is dead. I tried to pitch some crazy shit too. I was like, ‘What if it’s like you weren’t dead and you’re actually alive, but in hiding?’
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“And Sarah’s like, ‘I was on ice. I was the most dead a person could be. You can see my frozen body.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, but what if?’ And she said, ‘I am dead. I am Sarah Dead Gellar’,” recalled the director, who co-wrote the screenplay with Sam Lansky.
While Gellar won’t be appearing in the reboot of I Know What You Did Last Summer, the actor will be starring in the upcoming sequel series to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which sees her iconic character team up with a young witch – played by Ryan Kiera Armstrong – to quell a new threat.
Scream 7 is currently scheduled for release on February 27, 2026.
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