00:00Hi, I'm Sarah Michelle Gellar and today we're going Behind the Looks with Who, What, Where.
00:10Oh my gosh! That was I Know What You Did Last Summer which was my very first big feature film
00:18and Helen was from a small town that wanted to get out of her small town and had big
00:25New York dreams and her wardrobe reflected the fact that she had never been to New York City.
00:30It's really hard because you have to be able to run away from the bad guy but if your outfit says
00:35I'm about to run away from the bad guy then they know you're about to run away so usually
00:39you're in something that is not conducive to running away. In this instance it was a dress
00:47that she wore in a parade which was a green like a green satin that wrinkled a lot. It was my first
00:54experience ever with a leaning board which is basically what they give you on set so that
00:58you don't wrinkle and you don't sit down you just lean backwards it doesn't help at all.
01:02And then the shoes were so bad that at some point I actually just lost the shoes in the
01:06fight sequence and ran barefoot through the streets of Wilmington North Carolina or Southport North
01:11Carolina actually. Well Buffy's costumes were a huge part of who she was and what she was
01:15experiencing at that moment. When you first meet her she's this traditional essential valley girl
01:21California girl that doesn't want the weight of the world on her shoulders and she dressed
01:26accordingly but as she accepted the power and the responsibility her outfit sort of progressed
01:32with that but Buffy was always fashionable. I think it was one of the first real female heroines that you
01:37saw who did not sacrifice fashion for killing. The boots. The Buffy boots. We used to say when the boots
01:44went on you know the fighting was going to happen. I still have a pair of those boots in my house that
01:50I still fit into but I was devastated because at one point I think for a big fashion spread I don't
01:56remember what it was but our costume designer sent one of the pairs of the original boots to be
02:01photographed and she never got them back and I was devastated because we didn't have that many of
02:05them and that was the iconic Buffy boot. What did I keep for my Buffy wardrobe? I wish I would have
02:10understood to keep more of it not that necessarily that was an option because the studios like to
02:14take it back but you don't realize the sentimental importance that you'd have on something like that
02:20later. A lot of times at the end of an episode you're so sick of looking at an outfit that you
02:23don't always take it again if the option is available. Now I don't make that mistake anymore but I do have
02:30the boots still. The dress in season one where Buffy gets killed for the first time was a copy of a dress
02:39that I won my Emmy and I still have the original dress that it was the copy of. I think I still
02:45have the jacket she wore in the last episode but I don't have a ton. I wish I wish I had more. Oh I
02:50have a steak I have Mr. Pointy. Oh Scream 2. That was just such a highlight for me getting to be part of
02:57that franchise. I had just done the very first year of Buffy it hadn't even aired yet when I got cast in
03:03that movie and it was all of these icons at the time Courtney Cox and Neve Campbell and we just had
03:10a great time and that outfit actually thankfully was more conducive to being the girl that was killed
03:16in fact if I'm not mistaken I actually had sneakers and stretch pants and so that was amazing but I
03:22always remember in particular it's not fashion related but that scene with the phone which also
03:26is funny because now you look at that scene that phone is so ginormous but I remember that Wes Craven
03:33gave me one of the best acting tips it was just such a minor note but whenever you ask who it is when
03:39you're on a phone cell phone whatever you tend to look at it and say who is it which is such a weird
03:42thing because you can't see them I guess now you can see them but in those days it's FaceTime and I
03:47always when I see that outfit I always think of that. Girl intentions. Denise Wingate was our amazing costume
03:53designer and we had all of these ideas and she just made these visual dreams come true the corset
04:01the famous corset was built at a very famous Los Angeles shop called Trashy Lingerie which is pretty
04:07famous but they also do some of the most amazing intricate bodice corset costume work and I had never
04:14been in the store I was 20 years old I think and I remember the first time she told me we were going
04:20there I got all like blushy and shy and by like the third fitting I was like yeah I'm here and you
04:25become a member when you go there because I didn't want people just coming in to sort of look and
04:30ogle the clothing but it's they really do amazing craftsmanship and that's where the corset came from
04:35and then the kissing scene in Central Park was another one of those odd visions that I had and I just
04:41I saw this big hat not quite breakfast at Tiffany's but like ginormous and they don't
04:48they're not very common and so we uh we called it the church hat and we had to go to a store that
04:53like specialized in Easter Sunday type outfits but then all the hats were blue and pink and it was it
04:59was definitely like we went all over Los Angeles to find like the perfect black hat for that scene but
05:04her costume was so specific and and New York specific and it was a character in of itself when
05:10I first saw the crucifix I just kept thinking it's so ginormous like first of all that's a lot of
05:16cocaine in that cross but I guess Catherine was very wealthy we can digress on that probably not
05:20appropriate but I just kept thinking can we make a smaller one because how do you make that fashion
05:25and it was the same thing we went through on Buffy with the cross because Angel gives her the cross
05:29in episode I think seven maybe of the first season and obviously I was going to be wearing this cross
05:35forever and it was just like made by a prop master and nothing against a prop master but like you want
05:40your costume designer to design something you're going to have to wear it with every outfit and the thing is
05:45you know I have a tiny torso and the thing is like this big it felt like the Mr. T cross they both did
05:51Lisa Evans the costume designer from Scooby Doo that was such a great costume experience again almost
05:59every costume in that movie in both films were built from scratch those boots were a copy of a pair of
06:06Louboutins that we loved but did not come in Daphne purple and were custom made to match the original
06:12Louboutin and I think they had purple undersoles also as an homage to the original shoe but those
06:19costumes were epic and the second one in the big opening sequence which was like Daphne's red carpet
06:25moment we made this feathered jacket and it was great in theory because we needed a coat because
06:30it was so cold we shot the second one in Vancouver in the winter but the feathers just kept going up my
06:36nose and if you if you watch some of the scenes you can see me kind of doing this when I'm speaking
06:41because I feathers all at my nose seeing my husband in an ascot ridiculous oh the grudge yes that was
06:50such an interesting experience because we did if I remember correctly all the costume designing and all
06:56the meetings in America and then everything had to be shipped out to Tokyo and a lot of it was dressing
07:02for warmth because we shot the movie in the winter and it gets very very cold in Tokyo but what I very
07:09much remember about that outfit in particular was that we wound up having to do some reshoots in the
07:14summer while Tokyo summers get very very warm and I was roasting and so I had this great idea that I
07:21would tape ice packs all over my body because I had a sweater like I had layers so they wouldn't see
07:26them and it would keep me cool which was great except then the ice would start to melt and it would like
07:31drip and fall and the sound people would pick it up on the mic so they very quickly took all my
07:35ice packs away Ringer that was such a fun fashion show when you're playing twins and you get to really
07:42create the characters and obviously one of the main ways to differentiate between the two sisters
07:47was their wardrobe but Siobhan was wealthy living in Paris we had some fun with that in fact people
07:53used to really like do full commentary on the outfits on that show do revenge that was such a great
07:59experience Jen Caten Robinson who was the director had a very specific vision for the entirety of the
08:05movie that went for fashion that went for costume design it was all a big aesthetic she even sat down
08:12with me to approve what the office would look like how the wardrobe would fit and that outfit may or may
08:19not be hanging in my closet currently did I have any advice on how to play bitchy iconic high school you
08:24know I think if you've been a female in high school you know how to be a bitchy high schooler
08:29whether you were one or not you experienced it my one costume from wolfpack this was a running joke
08:37because I think I literally wore my arson jacket not literally I think I actually wore my arson jacket
08:43through every episode and would change my tank top and my cargo pants and it was the greatest because I
08:51never had to take time out of my day for wardrobe fittings but Barbara Vasquez our costume designer
08:56is one of my favorite people on earth I absolutely love her so we made up for it with her shoes
09:01because you have never seen an arson investigator that wears ferragamos like my character like Kristen
09:08Ramsey does every boot shoe moment was its own world and it's also like a nice give back to my fans
09:16because it is a genre that I haven't been in a long time and you do sort of think about Buffy and the
09:21boots and this is my modern homage take to the Buffy boots she wears shorter boots they're ankle boots
09:28she has a Miu Miu pair a Chloe pair but I mean she's an arson investigator in Los Angeles like she has
09:34some fashion sense thank you everyone this has been really fun reliving some of my favorite characters and their looks
09:46so
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