Sara Silva Channels the Dark and Seductive World of Cruel Intentions With Latest Press Looks

Sara Silva Channels the Dark and Seductive World of Cruel Intentions With Latest Press Looks


When Cruel Intentions, the 1999 film starring Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe, hit theaters in 1999, critical reviews were mixed, but audiences were not. Grossing $76 million worldwide, the dark and boundary-pushing (for its time) movie was by all accounts a success and became an instant cult classic, spawning a prequel, sequel, musical, and, just in time for your Thanksgiving-weekend viewing pleasure, a juicy new TV adaptation for Prime Video.

The drama, the twisted scheming, the romance, the lies and revenge—it’s all there in the 2024 television version. But instead of returning to the halls of New York’s elite high school Manchester Prep, the show pivots to Manchester College outside Washington, D.C., where Greek life rules. Delta Phi Pi President Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Catherine Hook) is our new ambitious and diabolical queen bee, who, in an attempt to preserve the reputation of the school’s sororities and fraternities as well as her own legacy, teams up with her manipulating stepbrother Lucian Belmont (Zac Burgess) to help recruit new student and daughter of the vice president of the United States, Annie Grover (Savannah Lee Smith), to join her sorority.