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 you're
00:40in something that is not conducive to running away. In this instance it was a dress that she wore in a
00:48parade which was a green like a green satin that wrinkled a lot. It was my first experience
00:54ever with a leaning board which is basically what they give you on set so that you don't wrinkle
00:59and you don't sit down you just lean backwards it doesn't help at all and then the shoes were so
01:03bad that at some point I actually just lost the shoes in the fight sequence and ran barefoot
01:08through the streets of Wilmington North Carolina or Southport North Carolina actually. Well Buffy's
01:12costumes were a huge part of who she was and what she was experiencing at that moment. When you first
01:17meet her she's this traditional essential valley girl California girl that doesn't want the weight
01:24of the world on her shoulders and she dressed accordingly but as she accepted the power and
01:30the responsibility her outfit sort of progressed with that but Buffy was always fashionable I think
01:34it was one of the first real female heroines that you saw who did not sacrifice fashion for killing.
01:41The boots the Buffy boots we used to say when the boots went on you know the fighting was going to
01:47happen I still have a pair of those boots in my house that I still fit into but I was devastated
01:53because at one point I think for a big fashion spread I don't remember what it was but our costume
01:58designer sent one of the pairs of the original boots to be photographed and she never got them
02:02back and I was devastated because we didn't have that many of them and that was the iconic Buffy boot.
02:08What did I keep for my Buffy wardrobe? I wish I would have understood to keep more of it not that
02:12necessarily that was an option because the studios like to take it back but you don't realize the
02:17sentimental importance that you'd have on something like that later a lot of times at the end of an
02:21episode you're so sick of looking at an outfit that you don't always take it again if the option is
02:26available now I don't make that mistake anymore but I do have the boots still the dress in season one where
02:34Buffy gets killed for the first time was a copy of a dress that I won my Emmy in and I still have
02:41the original dress that it was the copy of I think I still have the jacket she wore in the last episode
02:47but I don't have a ton I wish I wish I had more oh I have a steak I have Mr. Pointy oh Scream 2
02:54that was just such a highlight for me getting to be part of that franchise I had just done the very
03:00first year of Buffy it hadn't even aired yet when I got cast in that movie and it was all of these
03:06icons at the time Courtney Cox and Neve Campbell and we just had a great time and that outfit
03:12actually thankfully was more conducive to being the girl that was killed in fact if I'm not mistaken
03:17I actually had sneakers and stretch pants and so that was amazing but I always remember in particular
03:23it's not fashion related but that scene with the phone which also is funny because now you look at
03:28that scene that phone is so ginormous but I remember that Wes Craven gave me one of the best acting
03:35tips it was just such a minor note but whenever you ask who it is when you're on a phone cell phone
03:40whatever you tend to look at it and say who is it which is such a weird thing because you can't
03:44see them I guess now you can see them but in those days it's a FaceTime and I always when I see that
03:48outfit I always think of that girl intentions Denise Wingate was our amazing costume designer and
03:54we had all of these ideas and she just made these visual dreams come true the corset the famous
04:01corset was built at a very famous Los Angeles shop called Trashy Lingerie which is pretty famous but
04:08they also do some of the most amazing intricate bodice corset costume work and I had never been in the
04:14store I was 20 years old I think and I remember the first time she told me we were going there I got all
04:20like blushy and shy and by like the third fitting I was like yeah I'm here and you become a member
04:26when you go there because I don't want people just coming in to sort of look and ogle the clothing but
04:31it's they really do amazing craftsmanship and that's where the corset came from and then the kissing scene
04:37in Central Park was another one of those odd visions that I had and I just I saw this big hat
04:44not quite breakfast at Tiffany's but like ginormous and they don't they're not very common and so we
04:50we called it the church hat and we had to go to a store that like specialized in Easter Sunday type
04:56outfits but then all the hats were blue and pink and it was it was definitely like we went all over Los
05:01Angeles to find like the perfect black hat for that scene but her costume was so specific and New York
05:07specific and it was a character in and of itself when I first saw the crucifix I just kept thinking
05:12it's so ginormous like first of all that's a lot of cocaine in that cross but I guess Catherine was
05:17very wealthy we can digress on that probably not appropriate but I just kept thinking can we make a
05:23smaller one because how do you make that fashion and it was the same thing we went through on Buffy with
05:27the cross because Angel gives her the cross in episode I think seven maybe of the first season and
05:33obviously I was going to be wearing this cross forever and it was just like made by a prop master
05:38and nothing against a prop master but like you want your costume designer to design something you're
05:42gonna have to wear it with every outfit and the thing is you know I have a tiny torso and the thing
05:46is like this big it felt like the Mr. T cross they both did Lisa Evans the costume designer from Scooby-Doo
05:55that was such a great costume experience again almost every costume in that movie in both films were built
06:02from scratch those boots were a copy of a pair of Louboutins that we loved but did not come in
06:09Daphne purple and were custom made to match the original Louboutin and I think they had purple
06:15undersoles also as an homage to the original shoe but those costumes were epic and the second one in
06:22the big opening sequence which was like Daphne's red carpet moment we made this feathered jacket and it
06:28was great in theory because we needed a coat because it was so cold we shot the second one
06:31in Vancouver in the winter but the feathers just kept going up my nose and if you watch some of
06:38the scenes you can see me kind of doing this when I'm speaking because I feathers all up my nose
06:43seeing my husband in an ascot ridiculous oh the grudge yes that was such an interesting experience
06:51because we did if I remember correctly all the costume designing and all the meetings in America and
06:57then everything had to be shipped out to Tokyo and a lot of it was dressing for warmth because we shot
07:04the movie in the winter and it gets very very cold in Tokyo but what I very much remember about that
07:10outfit in particular was that we wound up having to do some reshoots in the summer while Tokyo summers
07:16get very very warm and I was roasting and so I had this great idea that I would tape ice packs all over my body
07:23because I had a sweater like I had layers so they wouldn't see him and it would keep me cool which
07:28was great except then the ice would start to melt and it would like drip and fall and the sound people
07:33would pick it up on the mic so they very quickly took all my ice packs away Ringer that was such a fun
07:38fashion show when you're playing twins and you get to really create the characters and obviously one of
07:45the main ways to differentiate between the two sisters was their wardrobe but Siobhan was wealthy living in
07:50Paris we had some fun with that in fact people used to really like do full commentary on the outfits
07:56on that show do revenge that was such a great experience Jen Caten Robinson who was the director
08:02had a very specific vision for the entirety of the movie that went for fashion that went for costume
08:07design it was all a big aesthetic she even sat down with me to approve what the office would look like
08:15how the wardrobe would fit and that outfit may or may not be hanging in my closet currently
08:21did I have any advice on how to play bitchy iconic high school you know I think if you've been a female
08:26in high school you know how to be a bitchy high schooler whether you were one or not you experienced it
08:32my one costume from wolfpack this was a running joke because I think I literally wore my arson jacket not
08:41literally I think I actually wore my arson jacket through every episode and would change my tank top
08:47and my cargo pants and it was the greatest because I never had to take time out of my day for wardrobe
08:53fittings but Barbara Vasquez our costume designer is one of my favorite people on earth I absolutely love
08:59her so we made up for it with her shoes because you have never seen an arson investigator that wears
09:05Farragamos like my character like Kristen Ramsey does every boot shoe moment was its own world and
09:13it's also like like a a nice give back to my fans because it is a genre that I haven't been in a long
09:18time and you do sort of think about Buffy and the boots and this is my modern homage take to the Buffy
09:25boot she wears shorter boots they're ankle boots she has a Miu Miu pair a Chloe pair but I mean she's
09:32just an arson investigator in Los Angeles like she has some fashion sense thank you everyone this has
09:36been really fun reliving some of my favorite characters and their looks
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