Rom-com fans rejoice! Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachael Leigh Cook, who played emotion interests successful the 1999 movie She’s All That, were unneurotic erstwhile again astatine the premiere of Netflix’s Christmas With You connected Nov. 8. Freddie stars successful the upcoming vacation movie, and Rachael showed up connected the reddish carpet for the premiere. The 2 posed for a saccharine photograph together, with Rachael wrapping her arms astir Freddie for a large hug. The histrion had a immense grin connected his look arsenic helium spent clip with his erstwhile co-star.
She’s All That was 1 of the biggest romanticist comedies of its time, truthful fans were thrilled to spot these 2 backmost unneurotic again. Although they’ve reunited publically a fewer times implicit the years, the sightings are fewer and acold between, truthful it was decidedly a peculiar treat.
Before She’s All That, Freddie and Rachael really starred in The House of Yes together, arsenic well. In a 2021 interrogation with E! News, Rachael recalled gathering the 90s heartthrob histrion for the archetypal time. “The archetypal clip I met Freddie was successful Sundance,” she shared. “We were some in House of Yes and I was successful a location that helium and Parker [Posey] and Josh [Hamilton] and everybody were in, conscionable saying hullo to everybody. I was lasting successful the surviving country and I felt these elephantine arms propulsion themselves astir maine and hug maine and remainder a chin connected apical of my head. It was Freddie and helium conscionable goes, ‘Hey babe.'”
Rachael clarified that Freddie thought she was his then-girlfriend, Kimberly McCullough, truthful helium “screamed a little” erstwhile helium realized the mistake helium made. “He didn’t cognize that it was maine due to the fact that wherefore would you?” Rachael added. “We had the nonstop aforesaid framework and hairsbreadth color. So it was beauteous hilarious. A romanticist drama archetypal gathering that evidently ne'er became a existent romance, but it was beauteous funny!” She besides gushed that Freddie is simply a “wonderful human.”
Rachael admitted that aft filming She’s All That, she didn’t reconnect with Freddie until aft their co-star Paul Walker’s decease successful 2013. “I realized you truly person to scope retired and instrumentality immoderate initiative,” she explained. “So we got java and I retrieve saying to him, ‘I cognize we ne'er truly hung retired overmuch aft the shoot, but you person nary thought what a large portion of my beingness this ended up being.’ And helium said thing precise Freddie-like, ‘Me too, dude. It’s crazy.’ I’m truthful fortunate that it’s idiosyncratic arsenic charming and arsenic beauteous arsenic Freddie to stock that with.”