ʼ90s heads, put together to swoon.

Freddie Prinze Jr. is gushing about his She’s All That costar Rachael Leigh Cook forward of their massive reunion on the upcoming vacation movie The Christmas Affair.

“I am actually excited to movie with her once more,” he advised Deadline Hollywood throughout Monday’s crimson carpet premiere of I Know What You Did Final Summer time. “I like her to demise, she’s like a sister to me. I do know her children, she is aware of my children. We have been shut ever since that first film, and I do not know why it is taken us this lengthy to work collectively once more but it surely did.”

She’s All That premiered in 1999, since incomes its place among the many finest entries in the ʼ90s rom-com canon. In it, Prinze Jr. performs Zack Siler, an affable jock who makes a guess with his bros that he could make over any undesirable younger girl right into a magnificence queen in time for promenade. He chooses the awkward, artistically-inclined loner Laney Boggs (Cook), and after some halted misconnections and the anticipated third act betrayal, the pair type a permanent bond.

The movie additionally starred Matthew Lillard as Brock, the fact star himbo Zack’s girlfriend Taylor (Jodi Lyn O’Keefe) cheats on him with, prompting the duckling-to-swan quest. Lillard and Cook established the She’s All That cinematic universe in 2021 with a return to their characters in He is All That, a gender-swapped remake starring nascent alt-pop queen Addison Rae and Cobra Kai star Tanner Buchanan. However Prinze Jr. declined to hitch that solid.

Forward of the discharge of He is All That, Cook revealed that whereas Prinze Jr. would not seem in the remake, the script initially featured a part for him.

“We each mentioned if he was going to do that one or not,” she defined. “It ended up not being an excellent match for him, however he and the inventive staff behind it are completely cool. He stated, ‘It isn’t going to work out for me, however I completely clearly help you doing no matter you need with this. Go run with it. I am going to help this film all the best way and everybody concerned.'”

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The Christmas Affair reunites not solely Prinze Jr. and Cook, however the two actors with She’s All That producer Jennifer Gibgot, who’s shepherding the vacation movie for Fox Leisure Studios.

That movie, announced in May, follows Prinze Jr. and Cook’s Gabe and Natalie, sports activities broadcasters who “type an unlikely alliance after their spouses are caught dishonest weeks earlier than Christmas.” 

Celebrating the announcement of the movie on Instagram that month, Cook wrote, “I ❤️ Freddie, my 🦊 FOX Household, New York and Christmas🎄 so I couldn’t be extra excited to announce this !!!”