Selma Blair and Sarah Michelle Gellar.Photo: Sarah Michelle Gellar/Instagram
Sarah Michelle Gellaris celebratingSelma Blairon the latter’s milestone 50th birthday.
TheBuffy the Vampire Slayeralum, 45, shared athrowback snapshotof herself and Blair back in 1998 to Instagram Thursday, revealing that it was taken on Gellar’s 21st birthday.
“And today we celebrate your 50th!!!” Gellar addressed Blair in the caption. “If I told that little girl on the right, that the girl to her left was going to be her lifelong friend … she would say ‘I know.’ "
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Selma Blair and Sarah Michelle Gellar.sarah michelle gellar/instagram
“Art and surprises on my birthday. What a special day,” Gellarwrote on Instagram, posing with Blair and Phillippe, 47, in front of paintings depicting Kathryn and Cecile’s (Gellar and Blair) kiss and Sebastian’s (Phillippe) naked rear.
Gellar stars inCruel Intentions, based on the 1782 novelLes Liaisons Dangereuses, as Kathryn Merteuil, a rich Upper East Side teenager who makes a bet with her stepbrother Sebastian Valmont that he can’t seduce the new principal’s daughter Annette Hargrove (Reese Witherspoon).
Blair costars as naïve teenager Cecile Caldwell, whom Kathryn makes a game out of manipulating in order to get revenge on an ex-lover.
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InCruel Intentions, Gellar and Blair famously lock lips — and the scene is so iconic it was recently recreated in the “Taste So Good” music video for Cann and Weedmaps’Pride Monthcampaign, more than 23 years after the movie first premiered.
Gellar recently told PEOPLE that she doesn’t need an excuse to pay homage to the scene with Blair. “I mean, why wait? We do it all the time. I love that girl,” theGolden Globenominee said about kissing her former costar and dear friend. “She has a very smooth,very easy face to kiss.”
“Complete with spit. Because that’s the key to it, you’ve got to get the spit. That’s the hardest part,” Gellar joked about the recreationin the video, released May 31.
source: people.com
