‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Director ‘Tried Relentlessly’ to Convince Sarah Michelle Gellar to Return for Sequel Despite Her Character’s Death: I Had to ‘Pitch Some Crazy S—’

Despite her best efforts, writer-director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson couldn’t bring Sarah Michelle Gellar‘s Helen Shivers back to life for the “I Know What You Did Last Summer” reboot.

In a recent conversation with Entertainment Weekly, Robinson said she “tried relentlessly” to fit Gellar into the new “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” Her efforts were for naught, however, because Robinson could not maneuver around the fact that Helen Shivers “is dead.”

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“I tried, okay? I harassed her! But she is dead,” Robinson said. “I tried to pitch some crazy shit too. I was like, ‘What if it’s like you weren’t dead

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