Jennifer Love Hewitt wished to embrace her attractive facet — with out being “sexualized” — when it got here to her wardrobe in I Know What You Did Final Summer time.
In a brand new interview with Vulture, printed on Friday, July 18, Hewitt, 46, and director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, 37, spoke about how they wished to form her character Julie's search for the reboot.
In line with the outlet, Hewitt, her stylist and Robinson collaborated to conjure up a glance “that felt proper — attractive however not sexualized, in classic T-shirts and blazers and denims.”
Hewitt described the wardrobe alternative compared to the sexualized outfits she wore within the 1997 unique as “very therapeutic.”
“No person's going to be speaking about my boobs. ‘Oh, you need me to flash you? They're down right here,'” she joked.
Acknowledging she does put on one low-cut prime in IKWYDLS “simply to present some cleavage,” Hewitt added, “We had been like, ‘Effectively, we're again. Why not?'”
Earlier within the piece, Hewitt mirrored on seemingly being sexualized as a youngster whereas working as an actress.
“Earlier than I even knew what intercourse was, I used to be a intercourse image. I nonetheless don't know that I've that absolutely outlined for myself as a result of it began so bizarre,” she mentioned, noting that it “bothers me extra now than it did at that age as a result of I used to be in it.”
Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewiit. (Photograph by Columbia Footage/Getty Photographs)
Robinson advised Vulture that she wished Hewitt to really feel attractive onscreen however not solely for the good thing about males.
“We can't let males take away the truth that she is scorching as a result of they wished to make it their factor,” she says. “We've got to reclaim Jennifer Love Hewitt being scorching for us!”
Jennifer Love Hewitt has spoken out relating to ongoing hypothesis about the place she stands with unique I Know What You Did Final Summer time costar Sarah Michelle Gellar. “I truthfully don't even know what that was or how that every one got here to be. I simply assume folks don't need the narrative to be simple,” Hewitt, 46, advised […]
Mother of three Hewitt — she shares Autumn, 11, Atticus, 10 and and Aidan, 4 with husband Brian Hallisay — has beforehand opened up about the way it felt to get a lot consideration for her physique within the 90s.
“In my 30s, I type of went again and regarded at the moment once more and I used to be like, ‘Oh my God,'” she advised fellow teen star Mayim Bialik on her “Breakdown” podcast in January 2025.
She continued, “There have been grown males speaking to me at 16 about my breasts simply brazenly on a chat present, and other people had been laughing about it. I don't even do not forget that, I actually didn't take that half in, however in hindsight it was actually unusual I believe to change into a intercourse image type of for folks earlier than I even knew what that was.”
