Jennifer Love Hewitt reveals she got hooked in the eye and ankle while shooting I Know What You Did Last Summer films: ‘I went blind’

Jennifer Love Hewitt is known for her role as Julie James in the iconic I Know What You Did Last Summer slasher franchise.

But playing a character escaping a hook-wielding murderer in the film came with a small price for the actress.

Hewitt, 46, told Extra TV in a new interview that when shooting the first and second films in the late ’90s, she was accidentally hooked – once in the eye, causing her to go “blind”, and in the ankle.

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“I think people didn’t know, or don’t know, that I actually got hurt on both movies with the actual hook,” she said, explaining it was a “real hook” and not “plastic”.

The eye accident happened when the crew moved Love Hewitt and her co-star’s mark during a scene in which her character is under a boat when the murderer comes.

“He hooks through this grate and he actually hooked my eye, and scratched my eye,” she said, saying the actors weren’t told their marks were moved.

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“I went blind and had to fix that,” she said, before insisting she was fine following the incident.

“We’re fine, everything’s fine. We’re all good. I went blind for a second and it’s fine. So that was scary.”

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However she spoke about being hooked in the ankle in the second film when her character was pulled under the bed.

“It actually went through the ankle in one of the takes and that was very exciting. I had to be looked at,” she said with a laugh.

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The original 1997 film, directed by Kevin Williamson, stars the likes of Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze Jr., and Anne Heche. 

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In exciting news for fans, Hewitt and and Prinze Jr. are reprising their roles in the 2025 reboot, which was filmed in Australia.

Hewitt was one of the biggest stars in the ’90s and early 2000s and is known for the likes of Party of Five, Shaky Ground, and The Client List.

She also had some hits with her singing career, including the song BareNaked and appeared in the film clip for Enrique Iglesias’ Hero.

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