Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr.’s Sweetest Moments

From a horror flick meet-cute to a married couple with two youngsters — Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar have come a good distance since their onscreen introduction.

The She’s All That actor and Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum met on the set of 1997’s I Know What You Did Final Summer time and immediately linked.

“We simply would speak about life and stuff like that, and we had fully completely different philosophies on nearly every little thing,” Prinze advised Us Weekly completely in February 2020.

The friendship additionally started over the Los Angeles native’s want to cook dinner for Gellar, who he thought “was too skinny” on the time.

“So, we began this weekly barbecue factor at her home, and me and my cousins would come over and cook dinner meals for her and her mates,” he recalled. “After which we’d ensure that everyone ate, and that was sort of how our friendship started.”

The costars friendship turned romantic after a fumbled dinner date in January 2000.

“We had been presupposed to have dinner with a buddy of ours, and he or she didn’t make her aircraft, so we went anyway,” the Lengthy Island, New York, native advised Us in February 2020. “We’d had tons of dinners earlier than and for some motive, it felt completely different that night time. Organically, it simply transitioned into one thing else.”

Two years later, the pair tied the knot in September 2002 in an intimate ceremony in Mexico. The identical yr, the lovebirds reunited onscreen to play Fred and Daphne in Scooby-Doo, roles they later reprised for the 2004 sequel.

The ‘90s sweethearts welcomed two youngsters, daughter Charlotte and son Rocky, in 2009 and 2012, respectively.

All through their relationship, the pair has grown nearer and though they maintain their household life personal, the actors have sometimes given followers a peek at their residence life and shared how they’ve managed to remain collectively for thus lengthy.

“Talk. That’s the important thing. It’s about being current,” the Loopy Ones alum advised Us in January 2019. “Listening is an important factor.”

The Summer time Catch actor advised Us that being mild with each other can be vital. “We nonetheless make one another giggle. And we deal with one another with respect,” he stated.

Scroll right down to see how Prinze and Gellar went from costars to mates to lovers after which a household of 4.