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
00:35says
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
00:48a
00:48parade which was a green like a green satin that wrinkled a lot. It was my first experience ever
00:55with 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
01:29the responsibility her outfit sort of progressed with that but Buffy was always fashionable I think
01:35it 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
01:47to
01:47happen I still have a pair of those boots in my house that I still fit into but I was
01:52devastated
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
02:12that
02:12necessarily that was an option because the studios like to take it back but you don't realize the
02:16sentimental 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
02:34where Buffy gets killed for the first time was a copy of a dress that I won my Emmy in
02:40and I still
02:40have the original dress that it was the copy of I think I still have the jacket she wore in
02:46the last
02:47episode but I don't have a ton I wish I wish I had more oh I have a steak I
02:50have 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
03:00very
03:00first year of Buffy it hadn't even aired yet when I got cast in that movie and it was all
03:05of 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 in that phone is so ginormous but I remember that Wes Craven gave me one of the best
03:34acting tips it was just such a minor note but whenever you ask who it is when you're on a
03:39phone
03:39cell phone whatever you tend to look at it and say who is it which is such a weird thing
03:43because you
03:43can't see them I guess now you can see them but in those days it's FaceTime and I always when
03:48I see
03:48that outfit I always think of that curl 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
04:20there 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
04:26member
04:26when you go there because I don't want people just coming in to sort of look and ogle the clothing
04:30but
04:31it's they really do amazing craftsmanship and that's where the corset came from and then the kissing
04:36scene in Central Park was another one of those odd visions that I had and I just I saw this
04:42big
04:43hat not quite breakfast at Tiffany's but like ginormous and they don't they're not very common and so we
04:49uh we called it the church hat and we had to go to a store that like specialized in Easter
04:55Sunday
04:55type outfits but then all the hats were blue and pink and it was it was definitely like we went
05:00all
05:00over Los Angeles to find like the perfect black hat for that scene but her costume was so specific
05:06and and New York specific and it was a character in of itself when I first saw the crucifix I
05:12just
05:12kept thinking it's so ginormous like first of all that's a lot of cocaine in that cross but I guess
05:17Catherine was very wealthy we can digress on that probably not appropriate but I just kept
05:21thinking like can we make a smaller one because how do you make that fashion and it was the same
05:26thing we went through on Buffy with the cross because Angel gives her the cross in episode
05:30I 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
05:40want
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
05:49cross 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
06:06of
06:06Louboutins that we loved but did not come in Daphne purple and were custom made to match the original Louboutin
06:13and I think they had purple undersoles also as an homage to the original shoe but those costumes were
06:21epic and the second one in the big opening sequence which was like Daphne's red carpet moment we made
06:26this feathered jacket and it was great in theory because we needed a coat because it was so cold we
06:31shot the second one in Vancouver in the winter but the feathers just kept going up my nose and if
06:37you
06:37watch some of the scenes you can see me kind of doing this when I'm speaking because I
06:42feathers all at my nose seeing my husband in an ascot ridiculous oh the grudge yes that was such an
06:50interesting experience because we did if I remember correctly all the costume designing and all the
06:56meetings 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
07:08I very much
07:09remember about that outfit in particular was that we wound up having to do some reshoots in the summer
07:14while Tokyo summers get very very warm and I was roasting and so I had this great idea that I
07:21would
07:21tape ice packs all over my body because I had a sweater like I had layers so they wouldn't see
07:26them
07:27and it would keep me cool which was great except then the ice would start to melt and it would
07:31like drip
07:31and 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 was
07:47their wardrobe but Siobhan was wealthy living in Paris we had some fun with that in fact people used to
07:53really like do full commentary on the outfits on that show do revenge that was such a great experience
08:00Jen Caten Robinson who was the director had a very specific vision for the entirety of the movie that
08:05went for fashion that went for costume design it was all a big aesthetic she even sat down with me
08:13to
08:13approve what the office would look like how the wardrobe would fit and that outfit may or may not be
08:19hanging in my closet currently did I have any advice on how to play bitchy iconic high school you know
08:25I
08:25think if you've been a female in high school you know how to be a bitchy high schooler whether you
08:29were one or not you experienced it my one costume from wolfpack this was a running joke because I think
08:39I literally wore my arson jacket not literally I think I actually wore my arson jacket through every
08:44episode and would change my tank top and my cargo pants and it was the greatest because I never had
08:51to
08:51take time out of my day for wardrobe fittings but Barbara Vasquez our costume designer is one of my
08:56favorite people on earth I absolutely love her so we made up for it with her shoes because you have
09:02never seen an arson investigator that wears ferragamos like my character like Kristen Ramsey does every
09:09boot shoe moment was its own world and it's also like a nice give back to my fans because it
09:17is a genre
09:17that I haven't been in a long time and you do sort of think about Buffy and the boots
09:21and 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
09:34she has some fashion sense thank you everyone this has been really fun reliving some of my
09:38my favorite characters and their looks
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