Sarah Catherine Hook ‘Perceive’ If Merciless Intentions Solid ‘Don’t’ Watch Sequence (Unique)

It has been greater than 25 years since Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe shocked the world with a deliciously taboo story in Merciless Intentions.

Now, the story is being retold for a brand new era — however the brand new forged is aware of the OGs may not be tuning in.

“I perceive if they do not [watch],” Sarah Catherine Hook, who reinvents Gellar’s position as a scheming it lady who wields her step-brother’s lust as a weapon within the new Prime Video sequence. “That may be a bit of bizarre for them.”

Hook, 29, leaves it at, “We’ll see.”

Although she’s unsure how the reboot sequence will probably be acquired by the unique forged, Hook says it is “an honor” to be telling this story in a brand new manner.

“I’ve beloved this film a lot for therefore lengthy. My finest pal and I, this was one among our favourite movies collectively,” she says.

Recalling the primary time she watched it, Hook says, “I feel the primary time I ever watched it, I feel I used to be in seventh grade — which is just too younger to look at — however I used to be with these older ladies who have been actually cool they usually launched it to me, which I really feel like is the right introduction to this film. Watching it with cool ladies and also you’re identical to this dopey seventh grader with braces going by means of puberty.”

She did not really feel stress coming in, although, and credit the showrunners for that. “They gave us all of this inventive freedom with the roles and actually did not need us to repeat and paste. They wished us to carry our personal tackle it and that helped quite a bit.”

“Actually, I used to be simply extra excited to be part of it, simply because I beloved it a lot.”

Attending to recreate the taboo pressure that Gellar and Phillippe originated as Kathryn and Sebastian alongside Zac Burgess as her character’s step-brother Lucien was “loads of enjoyable,” Hook says.

“It is naughty and scrumptious in a f—ed up sort of manner that you just’re identical to… That is simply, I do not know — when are we ever going to get to do something like this [again]?”

She provides, “I feel that is a part of why actors love what they do, as a result of we get to be in worlds that aren’t a part of our actuality.”

Hook, who stars subsequent in season 3 of The White Lotus, can be protecting her fingers crossed that the story will proceed in a second season — and for the potential of assembly among the authentic forged.

“I am hoping if this goes on, if we will have extra seasons, it could be enjoyable to have [some of the original stars] make some cameos,” she says. “It might be so, so nice.”

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Merciless Intentions is now streaming on Prime Video.