Freddie Prinze Jr opens up about falling in love with wife Sarah Michelle Gellar: ‘Everything clicked’

Freddie Prinze Jr reflected on how he fell in love with now-wife Sarah Michelle Gellar years after he first met her in the late ‘90s.

The 46-year-old actor discussed his relationship with Gellar, who he’s been married to for more than 20 years during a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight. He said they became good friends after meeting on the set of the 1997 film I Know What You Did Last Summer.

He said he made sure to “cook for” Gellar at the time since he thought that she didn’t eat “enough”.

“She didn’t have a driver’s licence so I was her chauffeur, and I would drive her to the gym every day and then go to the store, go get myself some lunch and then drive her back and we would just have an hour drive,” he said.

The She’s All That star proceeded to detail how often he’d drive her places, either during the work day or on their days off.

“We shot in this tiny little crazy town called South Fork. I would drive her to Wilmington every day that we had off, every day during rehearsals and we would have you know 55 minutes -- if I drove the speed limit -- to get to know one another,” Prinze continued.

He noted that their reasons for being just friends at the time had to do with geography: “She was from New York City and I am a SoCal kid, so we were night and day, and it was just our philosophies on life just never clicked.”

However, Prinze said their feelings changed a few years later and they started their relationship.

“Then one day everything clicked, and it was about probably three years later, and we started dating and she’s been my girlfriend ever since,” the Scooby-Doo star said.

This isn’t the first time that Prinze has spoken out about his friendship with the Buffy the Vampire Slayer star. Speaking to US Weekly in 2020, he confessed why he didn’t want to start dating Gellar right after they finished filming I Know What You Did Last Summer.

“By the end of the movie, I just wanted to be friends with her because I thought she was too skinny and I wanted to cook for her. Because that’s what my family does,” he said. “And so, we started this weekly barbecue thing at her house, and me and my cousins would come over and cook food for her and her friends. And then we’d make sure everybody ate, and that was kind of how our friendship began.”

Gellar and Prinze officially tied the knot in 2002. They now share two children, Charlotte, 13, and Rocky, 10.

During his interview with ET, Prinze shared that his daughter wants to become an actor and that encouraged him to star in a new holiday movie, Christmas With You.

“My daughter is starting to have an interest in acting and so my wife and I both kind of said we want to be examples for that,” he said. “My son could care less. He just wants to race cars, go fast and punch people. [So] that was the one part of it.”