Ashanti sparked anticipation about revisiting her fashionable teen film position “John Tucker Should Die” in conversations with a former castmate.
Ashanti revealed she’s been chatting with Arielle Kebbel concerning the long-rumored sequel to their iconic 2006 teen comedy, John Tucker Should Die.
The Grammy-winning R&B sensation just lately dished to Individuals journal that she and Kebbel, her co-star from the beloved flick, have been swapping messages about bringing again the hilarious revenge story for one more spherical.
“Arielle, she texts me! We’ve been going backwards and forwards a bit of bit. She informed me that she had the thought and I used to be like, ‘Hear, if we are able to get it collectively, I’m down,’” Ashanti excitedly informed the publication. “It might be hilarious to have a component two.”
The excitement a few potential sequel gained momentum earlier this 12 months when Kebbel joined fellow unique solid members Jesse Metcalfe and Sophia Bush at Epics Con Chicago in March 2024.
In the course of the panel, the trio dropped the intriguing information {that a} script already exists for the follow-up and confirmed it consists of all the unique characters.
Followers of the movie have been eagerly anticipating the likelihood ever since.
Within the unique comedy, Ashanti teamed up with Kebbel and Bush as a trio of savvy highschool college students who uncover they’re all courting the identical smooth-talking heartbreaker, John Tucker, performed by Metcalfe.
To show him a lesson, they recruit new woman Kate, portrayed memorably by Brittany Snow, to present Tucker a style of his personal medication and break his coronary heart in spectacular vogue.
Kebbel has lengthy championed the sequel, tirelessly advocating to deliver the crew again collectively.
She defined to Individuals in October, “everybody’s very supportive” of the “particular mission” and added enthusiastically, “we’re persevering with to do our greatest to push ahead on that.”
But not everybody from the unique solid appears utterly within the loop.
Brittany Snow, alongside co-star Penn Badgley, opened up final 12 months on Badgley’s “Podcrushed” podcast about feeling barely out of contact with the sequel’s growth.
Snow admitted, “I didn’t know what occurred, and I used to be like (to Kebbel), ‘Go forth. Go forth with that (concept).’ In order that was the final I had heard of it, was that she was attempting to make it occur, and so I assume she did? I’ll learn no matter – they’ve labored actually arduous.”
