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Nearly 20 years after John Tucker Must Die, Brittany Snow says she still keeps in touch with costar Ashanti — though she wishes the two were closer.
Snow played new girl Kate Spencer in the 2006 high school comedy, which revolves around three women that the title character — played by Jesse Metcalfe, 46 — dates at the same time.
In the Wed., Nov. 19 episode of the Las Culturistas podcast, Snow, 39, said of Ashanti, 45: “I love Ashanti. Her laugh is exactly the same. It’s so, like, perfect, like a little cute cackle. And I just adore her.”
Snow added that, when the two filmed the movie, Ashanti was “just starting to date Nelly — which, talk about a cultural phenomenon.”
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“We were at dinner one time, and I could barely keep it together,” Snow said, adding, “It was a really great time.”
In a recent appearance on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, Snow also spoke about filming John Tucker with Ashanti, saying, “We are all still in touch although I would like to be closer to Ashanti…I was so starstruck by Ashanti…Nelly came to dinner with us and he was wearing a band-aid, and i was just like [screams]…this is sooo 2000s.”
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In March while discussing her new movie No Address, Ashanti exclusively told PEOPLE that “it’d be hilarious” to make a John Tucker Must Die follow-up film — and she’s even been texting costar Arielle Kebbel about it.
“Arielle, she texts me! We’ve been going back and forth a little bit,” Ashanti said of Kebbel, 40. “She told me that she had the idea and I was like, ‘Listen, if we can get it together, I’m down.’ ”
Rumblings of a sequel intensified in 2024 during a panel with Metcalfe, actress Sofia Bush and Kebbel at Epic Cons Chicago. At the time, Metcalfe said he had “heard rumors of this script — there’s a script.” He also said he’d heard that “it’s amazing” and shared that “I’d definitely love to be a part of it.”
Kebbel told PEOPLE in October that “there’s a lot of talk about the sequel” and “we’re continuing to do our best to push forward on that.”
