Sarah Michelle GellarandSelma Blair’s friendship is sealed with a kiss.
Throughout the 25 years since the actresses starred inCruel Intentions— a movie that featured an instantly iconic locking of lips between two female costars — the friends have reenacted the moment several times.
“We do it all the time,” Gellar, 46, quipped of smooching her friend in a 2022 interview with PEOPLE. “I love that girl.”
TheBuffy the Vampire Slayeractress added that Blair, 51, “has a very smooth, very easy face to kiss."
Writer-director Roger Kumble’sCruel Intentions, which since its March 1999 premiere has become a cult classic, is a modern-day reimagining of the playDangerous Liaisons(itself based on the 18th-century French novelLes Liaisons dangereuses) set on the Upper East Side of New York City.
The movie also starredReese WitherspoonandRyan Phillippe. Among its infamous scenes is one featuring Gellar, as Kathryn Merteuil, teaching Blair, as Cecile Caldwell, how to smooch effectively.
(Left-right:) Selma Blair and Sarah Michelle Gellar in “Cruel Intentions”.Sony
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But that’s far from the last time that Gellar and Blair, whoremain close friendsin the year since, have reminded fans of the iconic smooch.
In a clip to commemorate the award, Blairreflectedon how their sultry moment has impacted countless fans, particularly in the LGBTQ+ community. “I think the reason the kiss has resonated with people so long is not just for the initial shock value,” she said, “but because it was a catalyst for so many young people to help them realize certain aspects of their sexuality and help make people comfortable to be who they really are.”
Seeing two women share an intimate moment “represented a paradigm shift to a new dynamic towards acceptance in pop culture," said Gellar, before adding, “Well, also it was super-hot.” The two then teased recreating the kiss for the camera, only to reveal a pane of glassseparated themfollowing safe social-distancing practices amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Also in 2020, the old costarsshared a photoof Blair planting a smooch on Gellar’s masked face. The “birthday kisses,” as Gellar wrote in a post, were to honor Blair’s 48th.
(Left-right:) Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair at the 2022 People’s Choice Awards.Rich Polk/E! Entertainment/NBC
TheLegally Blondeactress has even gone so far as to evoke the smooch witha cardboard cutout of Gellar. Leaving a Los Angeles estate sale in 2021 where she had apparently purchased a life-sized depiction of the actress as Buffy Summers, Blair wrote in an Instagram post, “Sometimes you have to stop and kiss the girl you love."
The “key” to capturing the essence of her iconic kiss with Blair, Gellar told PEOPLE at the time, is “you’ve got to get the spit. That’s the hardest part.”
source: people.com
