Freddie Prinze Jr. Thought Rachael Leigh Cook Was His Girlfriend The First Time They Met
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Rachael Leigh Cook and Freddie Prinze Jr.'s first meetup was straight out of a movie.
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Before the duo starred in She's All That together, they bumped into each other at a party in a hilarious mishap.
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"The first time I met Freddie was in Sundance. We were both in House of Yes and I was in a house that he and Parker [Posey] and Josh [Hamilton] and everybody were in just saying hello to everybody," Rachael told E!
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She continued, "I was standing in the living room and I felt these giant arms just throw themselves around me and hug me and rest a chin on top of my head. And it was Freddie and he just goes, 'Hey babe.'"
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It turns out that Freddie had accidentally mistaken Rachael for his then-girlfriend Kimberly McCullough.
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"I looked up and he screamed a little because he thought I was Kimberly. He didn't know that it was me because why would you? We had the exact same frame and hair color," Rachael explained.
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She added, "So it was a pretty hilarious, romantic-comedy first meeting that obviously never became a real romance, but it was pretty funny."
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While Rachael and Freddie lost touch after filming wrapped on She's All That, they reconnected years later after the passing of their co-star Paul Walker.
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