Filming for Sony's I Know What You Did Last Summer legacy sequel started in late November, but we still haven't received official confirmation on whether or not Jennifer Love Hewitt will return to reprise her role as series final girl Julie James.

During a recent interview with ComingSoon.net, Hewitt gave fans a hopeful update, revealing that while she has "not officially signed on yet," they are "close" to finalizing a deal. She says scheduling around her current series, the Fox procedural 9-1-1, has complicated things.

However, Hewitt also says playing Julie again "would be an honor." She's particularly excited to learn what Julie has been up to after all this time and how that single, traumatizing night fundamentally changed her life.

"I think on the personal level of being like, 'what are people gonna think of the 45-year-old version of Julie James?' I think ’cause I’m a woman and human,...