“Art and surprises on my birthday. What a special day,” captioned Sarah Michelle Gellar last night on her Instagram post, alongside a stack of pictures that showed Gellar with her Cruel Intentions (1999) co-stars, Ryan Phillippe and Selma Blair, along with friends and family. The star slayed her 45th birthday celebration at an art exhibit of Sam McKinniss‘ work that’s inspired by the teen film at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in Los Angeles, and the commentary by fellow 90’s celebrities has made us want to tight-roll our jeans.
In Cruel Intentions, Gellar played the role of a rich Upper East Side teenager set out to use her stepbrother—Ryan Phillippe—to get back at her ex-boyfriend by seducing his new girlfriend. However, Phillippe’s set his sights on wooing the virgin daughter of their school’s headmaster, played by Reese Witherspoon. (Spoiler alert: Witherspoon and Phillippe later married IRL, had two kids, then divorced but are now apparently winning at the coparenting game.) Gellar and Phillippe’s characters settle on a bet that involves a Jaguar XK140 and Gellar’s virtue, but we won’t spoil the ending for anyone who happened to miss (or forgot what happened in) the movie. It’s been a while, after all.
The movie wasn’t exactly critically acclaimed—few teen dramas are—but over the years it’s turned into something of a cult classic. One of the reasons, perhaps, is the scene starring Ryan Phillippe’s very toned derrier. The cast is an all-star lineup of 1990’s celebrities, and let’s be honest, anything to do with the late 90’s makes us warm and fuzzy (like being wrapped up in a flannel shirt… listening to Destiny’s Child… in a friend’s Altima with the windows down and the prospect of a Zima with a Jolly Rancher in our future).
As evidenced by the well-wishes of celebrities and civilians who commented on Geller’s post, we aren’t the only ones hyped to see the gang back together. Shannen Doherty, Emma Caulfield, Amanda Kloots and Kristin Chenoweth all sent her birthday greetings, and Linday Price—Geller’s longtime bestie and co-star in All My Children and I Know What You Did Last Summer—summed it up with “You are the same loyal, brilliant, curious, ride or die compassionate heart of gold girl. But so so much more. Happy Birthday Sar. Love you more than ever. Also, gimme that velvet choker plz.” Stand in line, Price.
Perhaps the best commentary came from Geller’s husband of 20 years, Freddie Prinze, Jr. Apparently, Geller didn’t only get birthday wishes on her Instagram feed. They came in the form of flower deliveries, as well. “Ladies, ” Prinze wrote “we’ve got to talk about y’all needing flowers on your birthday,” he said as he panned across the arrangements on their counter. “Look at this. And it’s not like y’all are ever around to collect them. It’s us that has to get it again and again.
And just like her character from Cruel Intentions would reply, Geller wrote back “But I NEED them.” We have the florist on the phone now, Sarah. We’ve got you.
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