Freddie Prinze Jr. teases his “She’s All That” reunion with Rachael Leigh Prepare dinner in “The Christmas Affair”

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Freddie Prinze Jr. is gushing about his She's All That costar Rachael Leigh Prepare dinner forward of their huge reunion on the upcoming vacation movie The Christmas Affair.

"I'm actually excited to movie along with her once more," he advised Deadline Hollywood throughout Monday's crimson carpet premiere of I Know What You Did Last Summer. "I like her to dying, she's like a sister to me. I do know her youngsters, she is aware of my youngsters. We've been shut ever since that first film, and I don't know why it's 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 greatest entries within the ʼ90s rom-com canon. In it, Prinze Jr. performs Zack Siler, an affable jock who makes a wager together 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 (Prepare dinner), and after some halted misconnections and the anticipated third act betrayal, the pair kind an everlasting 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 Prepare dinner established the She's All That cinematic universe in 2021 with a return to their characters in He's 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 forged.

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Forward of the discharge of He's All That, Prepare dinner revealed that whereas Prinze Jr. wouldn't seem within the remake, the script initially featured an element for him.

"We each mentioned if he was going to do that one or not," she defined. "It ended up not being a superb match for him, however he and the inventive crew behind it are completely cool. He stated, 'It's not going to work out for me, however I completely clearly help you doing no matter you need with this. Go run with it. I'll help this film all the best way and everybody concerned.'"

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

That movie, introduced in Might, follows Prinze Jr. and Prepare dinner's Gabe and Natalie, sports activities broadcasters who "kind an unlikely alliance after their spouses are caught dishonest weeks earlier than Christmas."

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

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