What is freddie prinze jr doing now

So whatever happened to everyone's teen crush? He was on the cover of Seventeen and Teen People and invited to every party in Hollywood. Prinze Jr tried to follow up that success by doubling down on high school heart-throb parts. The actor's post- She's All That films included Down To You , about a man reeling from the end of his first major relationship featuring a '00s teen heart-throb all-star cast including Julia Stiles, Selma Blair, Ashton Kutcher and Rosario Dawson, and Summer Catch with Jessica Biel, a sort of Notebook -esque star-crossed romance between a poor little rich girl and a local boy who dreams of being a baseball player.

There was also Head Over Heels , featuring a young Sarah Murdoch as the friend of a woman who falls for Prinze Jr, despite believing that he is a murderer. It's a lot funnier than it sounds. But none of these romantic comedies had the sticking power of She's All That. So, in , Prinze Jr switched gears. Both the year-old and Michelle Gellar, his then-fiancee, signed on to star in the live-action Scooby Doo remake.

Prinze Jr would play, appropriately enough, Fred, the group's bleach-haired charmer. Michelle Gellar took on Daphne, the chipper purple-wearing alpha female of the crew. The movie was not a critical success. The Rolling Stone gave the film one single star and the following review: "Get out your pooper-scoopers. And yet Scooby Doo was a huge hit. Both movies were written by James Gunn, who would go onto major studio success with the Guardians of the Galaxy series, and his original vision for the film wasn't exactly what you might call PG His fondest memory of the movie, which filmed on the Gold Coast, was playing Nerf gun tag through the "enormous, mostly-unfurnished house" that Prinze Jr and Gellar had rented, overlooking the ocean.

Speaking to Hello Giggles in , Prinze Jr noted that Scooby Doo is the movie that fans stop him on the street to talk to him about. In the pair became engaged, and they were married in Mexico in September If you ask Prinze Jr, he knew that his wife was 'the one' from their first date.

And I had gone on a date with a handful of them; they would never eat what I would eat. You have to have that in common with me if we're going to get along. If you have any concerns about the accuracy of our content, please reach out to our editors by e-mailing editors bestlifeonline.

In the late '90s and early s, Freddie Prinze Jr. But in recent years, he's focused on voiceover work and raising his two children with Sarah Michelle Gellar. However, there is one project that managed to bring him back to work: Freddie Prinze Jr. The classic '80s sitcom has returned in a new form on NBC's streaming service Peacock. In an interview on The Kelly Clarkson Show , Prinze explained why this gig was the one that got him back in front of the camera.

Keep reading to see what he had to say, and the role Gellar played in his decision. The year-old actor explained that he was done with acting and was spending time raising his children, year-old Charlotte and 8-year-old Rocky , with Gellar, his wife of 19 years. I was a full-time father, nothing got filmed in L.

Prinze has been doing voiceover work in recent years, including for the series Star Wars Rebels and Robot Chicken , and appears in the gaming series Gegg Wars , but his last on-screen acting job was on an episode of Bones in Prinze said that his friend Brian Austin Green , of Beverly Hills, fame, called him and said, "They like you for this show, and you should read the script.

My friend Soleil is in it, and if you meet her you'll fall in love with her. It also put Prinze on the map as a rom-com actor. Prinze went on to star in a series of comedy films in subsequent years, including Down to You , Boys and Girls , Head over Heels , and Summer Catch In , the actor starred as Fred Jones in the live-action adaption of Scooby-Doo and reprised the role in the sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.

While guest-starring in a series of sitcoms and legal dramas, the actor landed his own television show, titled Freddie. Unfortunately, the sitcom was canceled after one season in May