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   Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar revealed in a recent interview that she was   
   supposed to kiss costar Linda Cardellini in the 2002 film “Scooby-Doo” — but   
   that the scene had been cut from the final release along with a joke “outing”   
   Freddie Prinze Jr.’s character as potentially bisexual.   
      
   Gellar, who played Daphne in the movie alongside Cardellini’s Velma, told   
   Bravo’s Andy Cohen on Thursday that they had actually filmed the steamy scene   
   only to see it cut — and according to script author James Gunn, his original   
   intent had been to go much further than a kiss.   
      
   “In 2001, Velma was explicitly gay in my initial script. But the studio just   
   kept watering it down and watering it down, becoming ambiguous (the version   
   shot), then nothing (the released version) and finally having a boyfriend   
   (the sequel),” Gunn said of the project.   
      
   Gellar confirmed that vision during the “After Show” portion of Cohen’s   
   “Watch What Happens Live” — saying, “There was a steamy kiss. It got cut.   
   There was an actual kiss between Daphne and Velma that got cut. I feel like   
   the world wants to see it. I don’t know where it is.”   
      
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   According to Gellar, the entire movie had been pitched to the main actors —   
   also including Matthew Lillard as “Shaggy” — as “less family friendly” than   
   the long-running animated series. And for Gellar, that was a key selling   
   point.   
      
   She also recalled one specific line that had been cut — a line that had cast   
   ambiguity over Fred’s sexuality — that she was supposed to deliver during a   
   fight with Prinze Jr.’s character.   
      
   “There was a great line too that I’ll never forget. Daphne and Fred were   
   having a fight and I yell at him, ‘That ascot makes you look gay!’ I slam the   
   door [at him]. They cut that, too,” Gellar said. “I think that was the reason   
   I signed onto the movie. It’s something everyone’s thought for a long time.   
   There’s always been an implication about Fred being interested in both   
   parties. It all got cut.”   
      
   The new series on HBOMax, called “Velma” and featuring actress Mindy Kaling,   
   has taken Gunn’s vision and applied it liberally, making the character openly   
   gay.   
      
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