Cici Cooper might be dead, but Sarah Michelle Gellar‘s hopes of reprising her Scream 2 role for the upcoming installment are alive and well.
Despite shutting down hopes of a resurrection for her I Know You Did Last Summer character, the Golden Globe nominee expressed interest in returning to the Scream franchise for the upcoming Kevin Williamson-helmed seventh installment.
“I’m not in [Scream 7]. I tried to get in [Scream 7], nobody wanted me,” she told ET. “They were bringing everybody back. I kept thinking I would get a call, I didn’t get a call.”
Gellar noted, “There’s a lot of people that died in all the Scream movies that are back. Skeet [Ulrich], [Matthew] Lillard. I’m just saying, I’m waiting for my call.” Additionally, David Arquette and Scott Foley are reprising their roles in Scream 7.
In the 1997 slasher sequel Scream 2, Gellar played Omega Beta Zeta sober sister Cici, who gets terrorized via landline and thrown off the terrace of her sorority house by Ghostface. The same year, Gellar played similarly doomed Croaker Queen, Helen Shivers, in I Know What You Did Last Summer.
After Deadline reported an IKWYDLS sequel was in the works in 2023, Gellar shut down fan hopes for a potential return. “I am dead,” she told People.
“My best friend [Jennifer Kaytin Robinson] is directing it, so we joke that I have an unofficial job, which is I am continuity,” added Gellar. “So I’m always the one telling her, ‘Well, that would happen, or that wouldn’t happen with those characters,’ so I do have kind of an unofficial job title.”