Sarah Michelle Gellar as Helen Shivers in the science horror fiction
"I Know What You Did Last Summer".Is Sarah Satisfied With Last Summer?
Well lets find out.Sarah was really interviewed to get her answer.
Here it is now.There's a simple reason why Sarah Michelle Gellar agreed
to play beauty queen Helen in the thriller I Know What You Did Last Summer,
which recently hit video stores."I didn't want to play a stereotypical
dumb blonde,"the 21-year-old actress,best-known as the star of The WB TV series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer,has declared."It was important to me that my
character wasn't just a big-breasted-babe-running-through-the-woods joke.
Even when Helen is being stalked and panicked,she still tries to make
intelligent decisions."Helen may have been more than a bubble-headed babe,
but she was still no vampire slayer,as director Jim Gillespie had to
remind Sarah at times."When I first got to the set in North Carolina,I
was still in Buffy mode,"Sarah has recalled."Like,her'Here comes the
bad guy.Give him your right,then left!' Jim was like,Uh Sarah,you're
looking too athletic.This isn't a triathlon here.'I had to do things like untie my
shoes or put pebbles in them when I'd run." Aside from having to tone
down Buffy's feisty,in your-face fighting style,Sarah's biggest chanllenge
in playing Helen was all the screaming she had to do."I didn't know how
hard screaming is."Sarah groans."You think you'll see the bad guy and just
go,'Oh,bad guy! I'm scared!' But it's about the terror and the emptiness
that you feel inside.That type of screaming is really ehausting after a while."
But it was all totally worth it."This is something I really wanted to do,"
Sarah's emphasized."Helen is a strong,intelligent character.It was really
fun to be her."