Freddie Prinze Jr. refused to watch movies with Sarah Michelle Gellar after spoiling The Sixth Sense

Last Updated on February 8, 2023

Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar might be one of the all-time great Hollywood couples in terms of endurance, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t had their rough patches. The most devastating one? The time Gellar spoiled The Sixth Sense for Prinze.

Just in case you haven’t seen The Sixth Sense, consider yourself warned of spoilers–unlike Freddie Prinze Jr. On a recent episode of The Graham Norton Show, Gellar revealed to fellow guest M. Night Shyamalan that Prinze refused to watch movies with her for 15 years after she accidentally ruined The Sixth Sense’s twist for him.

While Gellar was cagey on what exactly she said to Prinze for the movie to be ruined, she did hint about how it came about. Still in the first act of Shyamalan’s breakout film, “It popped out, like, ‘Oh, is that…’…And my husband didn’t see a movie with me for 15 years.” The big twist of The Sixth Sense is that Bruce Willis’ character, a child psychologist working with Haley Joel Osment’s tormented Cole, has been dead for nearly the entire movie, having been shot by a former patient. Since this isn’t revealed until the final act, Gellar must have picked up on enough clues to ruin it for Prinze. That’s unfortunate, really, because it still stands as one of the most iconic twists in movie history.

When Gellar said that Prinze refused to watch a movie with her for well over a decade, Shyamalan said, “Rightfully so.” After all, this is a man who made much of his career on surprise endings, brilliant or Lady in the Water. During the interview, Gellar also told him, “I forgot about that until I just saw you here…I’m having PTSD.”

M. Night Shyamalan’s next film, Knock at the Cabin, comes to theaters on February 3rd. No word on what the twist will be, although Shyamalan has compared it to Signs–so maybe Dave Bautista is afraid of water?

What did you think of the twist in The Sixth Sense when you first saw it? Were you surprised or did you see it coming? Or, worse, did you have it spoiled for you? Give us your memories below!