What a pleasant surprise!
Rachael Leigh Cook, the star of 1999’s She’s All That, has joined the cast of Miramax’s gender-swapped remake, He’s All That, first reported by Variety.
Cook will portray the mother of Padgett Sawyer, the remake’s protagonist, played by Addison Rae. While the casting is a nice surprise, I personally liked the idea of Cook returning as Laney Boggs, as someone who worked at the school or a parent of one of the teens involved, however, I am all in this casting.
On the casting, Cook commented,
“I’m thrilled to be reunited with so many familiar faces! This version has a great new spin that I think people will really enjoy,”
He’s All That stars Rae in a role inspired by Cobra Kai ‘s Tanner Buchanan as Cameron Kweller,
“the least popular boy in school. In an attempt to avenge her reputation from an embarrassing fallout with her boyfriend, Padgett accepts the challenge to turn Cameron into the school’s Prom King.”
