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“She’s All That” isn’t often discussed as one of the best rom-coms of all time<\/a>, but it’s an entertaining one that’s fondly remembered by many of us who grew up in the ’90s. Inspired by George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion,” the Robert Iscove-directed film tells the story of Zachary (Freddie Prinze Jr.), a jock who accepts a bet to turn Laney (Rachael Leigh Cook), the high school’s most socially maligned student, into a beauty queen. What some folks don’t remember, though, is that “She’s All That” features a dialogue-free cameo from Sarah Michelle Gellar. But why was a star of her magnitude not featured in a more prominent role?<\/p>\n The answer is simple: Gellar didn’t want a speaking part in the rom-com, even though she was a pop culture phenomenon from playing the main character on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”<\/a> at the time of its creation. While chatting with\u00a0Cosmopolitan<\/a>, Iscove revealed that Gellar was working on pick-up shots for “Buffy” when the cameo came about, and her friendship with a certain star factored into her set visit that day.<\/p>\n “She was there visiting Freddie and we asked her if she would come and do it, and she said she would come and do it, but she wouldn’t speak. She wouldn’t say any lines. OK, we don’t know why you wouldn’t say, ‘Thank you,’ or ‘No.’ But that was her thing and she did it. And to get Buffy in the movie was certainly [a big deal] \u2014 because at that point, ‘Buffy’ was huge.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n Now that Gellar and Prinze Jr. are married, some people believe that her involvement in “She’s All That” stemmed from being all loved up back then. However, the actor who plays Zachary in the movie has a different recollection of events.<\/p>\n\n