If you’re scared, they’re going to be scared. If you’re anxious, they’re going to be anxious. If you normalize it and do it, it will be normal for them. In terms of train travel, there are not as many rules. The kids, they can walk around, there’s different cars to go to, and it also just affords you different budgets as well.
It also takes some of the stress out. You can plan your vacation to the last second, and then the plane has a malfunction or the pilot doesn’t show up and all of a sudden you’re in a foreign country with a different language. With train travel, it is so easy, and Trainline makes it even easier because you just have access to all of these trains.
So many of the projects you starred in—from Cruel Intentions to I Know What You Did Last Summer—have become modern classics and are now having a second life with the younger generation. There’s the Cruel Intentions reboot and now the I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel coming out this year, starring your husband. What has it been like to see your work be so beloved?
As an actor, your goal and hope is that you have at least one project in your life that is impactful to people and that stands the test of time and that new generations discover it. And I’ve been so fortunate to have had many of them. I feel very lucky and it’s exciting. And it’s exciting that emotionally, a lot of these projects still mean a lot to people.
I heard this great quote the other day from Tubi, because Tubi is where a lot of people are discovering Buffy now. They called it new-stalgia.
Oh, interesting, what does that mean?
The idea is that it’s nostalgia for us, but my kids and their friends, it’s new-stalgia for them. They’re discovering it.
Do your kids watch your old projects?
No. I mean, my kids find it pretty cringe. I think they think they have better things to do than watch me on something, but they’ll watch my friends on stuff. Although my kids love I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Are they excited to see Freddie in the new movie?
Yeah. We went as a family to Australia to watch them film, and we had a great time. It helps when your best friend [Jennifer Kaytin Robinson] is also the director.
I loved your response when someone asked you a few months ago if you were going to be in the movie too: “No, I’m dead.”
I’m dead. But I was there in spirit.
You were haunting the set, literally and figuratively.
In more ways than one.
Let’s talk Buffy. What was it like to see the huge fan response to the reboot news?
Definitely overwhelmed, but also that’s why I am doing it. When you realize what it means and how excited, you’re on the right track with something.
