Hacky sack in a quad? She’s All That’s 1999 release embodied all things ‘90s, from campus DJs and poetry slams to choreographed prom dances and girl next door romances.
Fans still root for Laney Boggs more than 20 years after the movie hit the theaters.Rachael Cook) and Zack Siler (Freddie Prinze Jr.Many are curious if their relationship lasted beyond high school graduation.
Despite getting off to a rocky start — Zack bet fellow jock Dean Sampson (the late Paul Walker) that he could turn any girl into prom queen in six weeks — the pair’s chemistry was undeniable. Laney allowed Zack to show his soft side, while he brought out the artist in her.
The film also featured up-and coming actors Gabrielle Union, Dulé Hill, Anna PaquinAnd Kieran Culkin, has been a rom-com classic.
Prinze and Cook, 17 years after their epic love story won over viewers, reunited in September 2016 and caused quite a stir among those looking for a sequel.
“Cup of coffee with the homegirl @rachaelleighcook,” the Scooby DooThe Instagram photo was captioned by actor. “#BeenTooLong #OldFriendsNewFriends.”
Ahead of the movie’s 20th anniversary, Jodi Lyn O’KeefeTaylor Vaughn, the mean girl, was played by Alicia.
“I can remember being on set, and realizing that we were all looking at each other, and being like, ‘This is great. This is the best time ever, and I can’t believe we’re all getting to do this,’” she told Us WeeklyExclusively in October 2018. “We were all so young and it was just exciting.”
O’Keefe said that her favorite memory from filming was spending time with Cook and “going through my life and constantly running into her” over the years.
Cook credits Walker’s death, which she was involved in a car wreck in 2013, with rekindling their friendship with Prinze, her screen love interest, a few decades back.
The Josie and the Pussycats star told Use in August 2020 that Walker was “way cooler than the rest of us” on set and after his passing she reached back out to Prinze after realizing that “you got to use the time you got.”
Cook remarked that Prinze will always be a special friend in her life, after they both became famous for their roles in She’s All That.
“I don’t think that anyone, except for the person who does it with you, can truly understand just what it is to be part of something unless they were exactly by your side when it happened,” she explained to Use. “So I think we’ll always be bonded in that sense. I hope so at least because he’s such a lovely human.”
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