Why Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas Haven’t Ruled Out a Save the Last Dance Sequel

But the mom to Strummer, 8, Arlo, 4, and Henry, 2, (with husband Preston Cook) is willing to spend a bit of time defining Sara and Derek’s hypothetical relationship. 

“They’d run into each other at, like, the grocery store,” pitched the Brooklyn-based star, “and both have their adult lives and then you take it from there.”

Should they make our early aughts dreams come true, Stiles knows at least one move she would change. 

Desperate to believably portray a professional dancer in the OG film, the then-19-year-old would beg off when choreographer Fatima Robinson offered to take the cast on “a tour of all the clubs in Chicago,” Stiles recounted. “And I know it would be until probably dawn. And I was like, ‘I can’t.'” 

Two-and-a-half-decades later, the FOMO still lingers. 

“We had a good time,” Thomas acknowledged. “Julia and I would shoot ’til probably something like 7, 8 o’clock at night. I’d get back to my place and I’d be starving and exhausted”