Jennifer Love Hewitt has a brilliant idea, and we’re hoping the 9-1-1 creative team listens to it. On the heels of opening weekend for Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s I Know What You Did Last Summer, which sees Hewitt reprise the role of Julie James after nearly three decades since originating it, the actress grabbed a seat opposite Tommy DiDario on his I’ve Never Said This Before podcast. It was there that she came up with and spitballed her plans for a one-of-a-kind event that would see 9-1-1 pay homage to the iconic slasher franchise.
During the pair’s chat, the star of the beloved ABC procedural was musing about what might happen to her character — 911 dispatcher Maddie Han — in upcoming episodes when she struck gold with a killer idea:
“What if I get a call at the 911 call center from a girl being chased by a fisherman? [Winks] Wouldn’t it be fun? It would be playful and it would be fun — like in a Halloween episode. I’m putting it out there! I think that would be really good, like, ‘911, what’s your emergency?’ ‘I’m being chased by a guy with a hook!’ ‘Really? We’ve all seen that movie.’ Wouldn’t that be brilliant?”
Yes. It would be absolutely brilliant and wonderfully meta. You know, like that episode of Boy Meets World when she played Jennifer Love Fefferman in a one-off episode of the show’s fifth season that paid homage to the slashers of the day, like I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream. Give the fans what they want, 9-1-1 and make the fisherman storyline a thing!
Julie James Returns
You can check out part of Hewitt’s interview with DiDario in the clip above. I Know What You Did Last Summer is now playing in theaters.
