Who is freddie prinze jr married to

Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar are power couple goals!

After meeting on the set of the 1997 horror movie “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” the two became friends. However, they didn’t start dating until several years later.

“We were supposed to have dinner with a friend of ours, and she didn’t make her plane, so we went anyway,” Prinze explained. “We’d had tons of dinners before and for some reason, it felt different that night. Organically, it just transitioned into something else.”

The two became engaged in 2001 and got married in 2002, the same year they shared the screen as Fred and Daphne in the live-action “Scooby-Doo” movie. They reprised their roles again for the sequel, “Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed” in 2004.

They also lent their voice acting talents to the animated cartoon “Star Wars: Rebels.” Freddie Prinze Jr. voiced the Jedi Kanan Jarrus, while Gellar had a smaller role voicing the villainous Seventh Sister.

Freddie Prinze Jr. And Sarah Michelle Gellar Have Been Married For Almost 20 Years!!

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The couple has been married for almost two decades, although they definitely have faced critics throughout their relationship.

In a 2001 interview with radio host Howard Stern, Prinze found himself on the defensive after Stern told him that his marriage wouldn’t last ten years.

“Oh, it absolutely will last,” Prinze replied.

“You think you’re gonna know how you feel at 35?” Stern countered. “You’re gonna be a completely different dude.”

“And she will be a completely different woman, but that’s alright,” Prinze replied.

Freddie Prinze Jr. Reveals The Secret To A Long And Happy Marriage

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Prinze and Gellar have changed over the years, but he recently sat down with US Magazine to share the secret to a long and happy marriage.

“If you love and respect someone, what brings them joy should make you happy, whether you’re involved with it or not,” he said.

He added that, in his own household, “I played video games since I was a little boy. Sarah knew I played video games. If she ever gave me a hard time about playing video games, Sarah and I would not be together. Period.”

“So, let your girls watch what they want to watch,” he continued. “Let your dudes watch what they want to watch. Don’t give them a hard time. And if you find yourself in one of those relationships, maybe it’s time to have a conversation.”

In 2019, Gellar also spoke to US to reveal the secret to a good marriage. According to the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” alum, “Communicate. That’s the key. It’s about being present. Listening is the most important thing.”

Freddie Prinze Jr. Reveals He And Sarah Michelle Gellar Won’t Share The Screen Anytime Soon

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Although fans loved watching the on-screen and off-screen couple share their chemistry with their characters, Prinze has a different take.

“We only worked together, while we were together, on Scooby-Doo, and otherwise neither one of us I felt thought it would be very interesting for us to be in a job together,” Prinze revealed.

“I don’t think it’s that exciting to watch two people struggle to be together when, you know, they’re going home together at the end of the night,” he continued.

“Odds are, if we were in a movie together it would be a romantic comedy, based on my track record and hers,” he added. “So yeah, we never thought that was something that we would be that interested in because that’s our life.”

Although fans may not be able to see the power couple share the screen again anytime soon, they sure loved when Gellar and Prinze Jr. recreated the iconic scene from “Dirty Dancing” for Halloween!

Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar are one of the few Hollywood success stories when it comes to marriage. The two first met on the set of I Know What You Did Last Summer in 1997 and then worked together on the set of Scooby-Doo in 2002. Some even imply that the two may have become engaged on the set of Scooby-Doo.

Even though the set of movies is what brought them together, Prinze has no interest in working with Gellar on the set of other movies. His reasoning is simple. It simply wouldn’t be exciting for them to work together “pretending” they hadn’t been married for the last 20 years.

The life and love between Freddie Prinze Jr. and his wife

Between the two movies and the sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer in 1998, there was a little behind-the-scenes action between Gellar and Prinze. The two officially announced that they were a couple in early 2000. The ceremony took place at a resort in Mexico on September 1, 2002.

They continued to work both together and separately in the years that followed. They appeared together again in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed in 2004. However, it all changed when they began to have children since both wanted to trade-off work schedules to ensure someone would be home for the kids.

In September 2009 the couple’s first child was born, Charlotte Grace. In September 2012, Rocky James was the next to make an appearance.

Why is there zero interest in working together?

Considering how long Gellar and Prinze have been together, you may think that their natural chemistry would work well in a movie or sitcom that featured the two of them. However, they disagree.

According to Insider, he said in a recent interview that he figures that if they worked together, it would likely be a romantic comedy and, “It wouldn’t be very exciting for us to pretend to struggle to be together for 96 minutes when we go home together every night.”

Prinze continues throughout the interview stating that they have had plenty of opportunities to work together, but they are the happiest making just “silly” or “small” projects, similar to their dish detergent commercial in 2020 where they got to make jokes about “doing it”, the dishes, each night.

What are they doing now?

Although both Gellar and Prinze were very popular in the 1990s and early 2000s, they have faded from the spotlight. This does not mean that either of them isn’t still very successful. Whether they ever share another scene together or not, there is no denying that no one will completely forget their names.

Most recently, Gellar has appeared on the television series Masters of the Universe: Revelation and The Big Bang Theory, though most people will always know her best for her earlier roles of being Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Kathryn Merteuil in Cruel Intentions.

Prinze has been very busy in recent years with Robot Chicken, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, and Punky Brewster. He has even expanded into gaming by giving voice to Lt. James Vega in the video game Mass Effect: Legendary Edition.

Food is a part of the relationship between Prinze and Gellar. Therefore, beyond the big screen, both Gellar and Prinze have published their own cookbooks. Stirring Up Fun with Food by Sarah Michelle Gellar and Gia Russo and Back to the Kitchen Freddie Prinze Jr. with Rachel Wharton, forward by Sarah Michelle Gellar. Her book focuses on fun and creativity in the kitchen with kids. His contribution is a book that is devoted to sharing his love of cooking with everyone.

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