Sarah Michelle Gellar thanks a friend for being the inadvertent reason she’s spent 20 years with her beloved husband Freddie Prinze Jr.
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr.’s relationship is all thanks to a friend who missed her flight.
The actress took to social media on Friday to give thanks to a good friend who inadvertently allowed her to grow closer to her now-husband back in the day.
Alongside a side-by-side image showing the loving couple 20 years ago and today, she included this sweet caption: ’20 years ago this week, my friend @realfreddieprinze and I were supposed to have dinner with a mutual friend from out of town. That friend missed her flight, but we decided to still meet and catch up. Now 20 years together, 17 plus married and two kids, we still go to that restaurant for dinner.
Built to last: Sarah Michelle Gellar took to social media on Friday to give thanks to a friend who inadvertently allowed her to grow closer to now-husband Freddie Prinze, Jr. back in the day
‘So thank you @sloaney77 for not showing up for dinner,’ the Cruel Intentions actress, 42, concluded.
Gellar and Prinze, 43, first worked together on the 1997 slasher film I Know What You Did Last Summer, which was one of several teen horror films made in the wake of Scream’s runaway success the year before.
While Sarah also had a brief uncredited scene in Freddie’s 1999 rom-com She’s All That, the pair would go on to headline another big movie together in 2002. Scooby Doo also costarred Scream’s Matthew Lillard and Linda Cardellini who can now be seen on Dead To Me.
2002 was also the year Gellar and Prinze got married. They went on to have two children together: daughter Charlotte Grace, now ten, and son Rocky James, seven.
They know what they did: Gellar and Prinze first worked together on the 1997 slasher film I Know What You Did Last Summer (seen here with Ryan Phillippe, right)
Daphne and Fred: They would go on to headline another big movie together in 2002, Scooby Doo, which spawned a sequel two years later
The Scooby movie spawned a sequel in 2004, for which the couple returned.
Additionally, in 2006, Freddie and Sarah both voiced characters in the animated film Happily N’Ever After.
Prinze isn’t the only throwback costar that Gellar, also famous for playing Buffy the Vampire Slayer on TV for seven seasons, has kept in touch with.
Way back when: 2002 was also the year Gellar and Prinze got married, and they went on to have two children together: daughter Charlotte Grace, now ten, and son Rocky James, seven
Cute couple: Prinze isn’t the only throwback costar that Gellar, also famous for playing Buffy the Vampire Slayer on TV for seven seasons, has kept in touch with
Actress Selma Blair, who costarred with Sarah in the 1999 film Cruel Intentions, has relied on the support of friends like Sarah in her current struggles with multiple sclerosis.
Just this week, both actresses posted shots to their respective Instagram accounts posing with an exercise machine known as a PlateFit, which Sarah gifted to Selma in order to help her with her recovery.
In Blair’s post, she referred to Sarah as a ‘forever friend’ and an ‘angel,’ while Sarah wrote ‘The best friendships, are fierce lady friendships, where you aggressively believe in each other, defend each other, and think the other deserves the world.’
Grateful: Actress Selma Blair, who costarred with Sarah in the 1999 film Cruel Intentions, has relied on the support of friends like Sarah in her current struggles with multiple sclerosis