Freddie Prinze Jr. shares key to lasting marriage with Sarah Michelle Gellar

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Freddie Prinze Jr. mirrored on the key behind his 23-year marriage to actress Sarah Michelle Gellar.

Throughout a latest interview with Variety, the 49-year-old actor candidly opened up about how he and Gellar, 48, have saved their relationship robust in Hollywood.

"Marriage is tough it doesn't matter what enterprise you’re in," the "She's All That" star stated. "What works for us won't work for everybody else."

He continued, "We work at it. I’m not good. She’s not good. We piss one another off, however we respect each other. We had been mates first."

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Freddie Prinze Jr. shared his ideas on the important thing to his profitable marriage to Sarah Michelle Gellar. (Sarah Michelle Gellar / Instagram )

"Perhaps that’s the key? It wasn’t simply "Oh, she’s sizzling, he’s sizzling — let’s hook up," he added. "However I do know individuals who’ve accomplished it the opposite method, and their relationships are simply as robust as mine."

Gellar and Prinze Jr. first met whereas filming the hit 1997 horror film "I Know What You Did Final Summer time." Nevertheless, sparks did not instantly fly between the 2.

In a 2001 interview with People, Prinze Jr. admitted that the longer term couple "actually didn’t dig one another" at first.

"Then at some point I gave her a trip to the gymnasium," he stated. "We talked on the way in which up, and she or he was a cool chick."

The couple met in 1997 and married in 2002. (Ron Galella/Ron Galella Assortment through Getty Photos)

The pair turned mates, however their relationship did not flip romantic till three years later. Throughout a joint interview with People Now in 2020, Gellar and Prinze Jr. defined how they unintentionally went on a primary date.

"We had been mates for a really very long time. We might had many dinners earlier than. And we had been purported to go together with another person, and the third individual did not make it out and we determined to nonetheless go," the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" alum recalled.

"We had been simply two folks at dinner catching up," Gellar continued. "We had an extended automobile trip and an extended dinner and issues simply occurred."

Prinze Jr. instructed the outlet that he fully misplaced curiosity in seeing different girls after his first date with Gellar.

"I did not go on dates with different women, nor did I even need to pursue dates with different women," he stated.

The pair share two youngsters. (Jerod Harris/Getty Photos for Knott's Scary Farm)

The couple introduced their engagement in 2001 and tied the knot a yr later in Mexico when Gellar was 24 and Prinze was 26.

Prinze Jr. and Gellar, who additionally co-starred in 2002's "Scooby-Doo" and the 2004 sequel "Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed," welcomed their first baby, daughter Charlotte Grace, in 2009. In 2012, Gellar gave start to their son, Rocky James.

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Whereas talking with Selection, Prinze Jr. defined how he treasured his household life with Gellar and their youngsters.

"I simply love my children," he stated. "My daughter is away for the summer time, and I hate it. I like hanging out with my son — he’s actually humorous. I really like my spouse, man. I married her for a motive."

Prinze Jr. defined how their relationship is constructed on a basis of friendship and respect. (Jesse Grant/Getty Photos for Paramount+)

Throughout a December 2024 interview with Fox Information Digital, Gellar weighed in on the important thing to a permanent union. She additionally expressed her view that modifications in societal values had led to the decline of long-lasting relationships.

"I believe every part takes work in you, whether or not it is a friendship or a piece relationship or a wedding," the "Dexter: Unique Sin" star stated.

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"It's important to put the work in," she continued. "And we stay in an especially disposable society now."

"Your telephone breaks, you do not repair it. You get a brand new one," Gellar added. "And I believe that is loads of the perspective toward relationships."

"And I do not know, perhaps separate loos," the actress joked.

The 2 appeared within the 2025 model of "I Know What You Did Final Summer time." (Michael Buckner/Selection through Getty Photos)

Prinze Jr. is presently starring within the 2025 model of "I Know What You Did Final Summer time," which was launched on Friday. The actor reprised his function as Ray Bronson within the legacy sequel to the primary film within the four-part franchise.

The couple's former co-star <a href="https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=94797d56fd90ea36&q=freddie+prinze+jr+sarah+instagram&udm=2&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIejIPgyyGM1YJJNz-u26A7UQjdzW_3QjQoz5M3kGxMbP-gVAKZ_KVR2vOu6SW9sagS7yBI1jCYKAOJ6VGHgK7MGHUvoQTSSEh5eag4kWFsn7bT2mje3UZ8n_Zi4Au5AIlbZlT-GqK_cJc4f0JkWAZgLUmy1KSwtGYO2FD7GLt9MA6NwO-QQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjIvuSvuMqOAxUIKkQIHTaIHewQtKgLKAF6BAgUEAE&biw=1280&bih=551&dpr=1.5#vhid=EVwgz-itwYoZtM&vssid=mosaic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Love Hewitt additionally returned to play the unique movie's protagonist, Julie James. Hewitt and Prinze Jr. beforehand reunited within the 1998 sequel "I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer time."

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Gellar, whose character Helen Shivers was killed off within the first movie, made a cameo look within the new installment throughout a dream sequence.