After four years, Elisha Cuthbert has ended her onscreen hiatus with Prime Video’s latest romantic drama series.

The Every Year After actress recently explained why she “didn’t want to be on set” in recent years, until booking her role as Sue Florek in the series based on Carley Fortune’s Every Summer After books, all eight episodes of which are now available to stream.

“I think after we had our second, I realized—because I had worked all through the first four years of our first child—and it was really hard to separate that mom from the working person I was,” she explained on Today. “So, when we had our second, I just felt like I didn’t want to waste any second of it and I didn’t want to be on set.”

Cuthbert added, “I just felt like I needed to be at home with the kids and I enjoyed every minute. And now that they’re in school now full time, I feel like I have the space and the energy and the heart to kind of leave them and do it.”

Developed for TV by Amy B. Harris and Leila Gerstein, Every Year After follows Percy (Sadie Soverall) and Sam (Matt Cornett), two lifelong friends who explore whether their first love was meant to be their soulmate.

Known for her roles in The Girl Next Door (2004), House of Wax (2005), 24 (2001-’10), Happy Endings (2011-’13) and The Ranch (2016-’20), Cuthbert last starred in 2022’s The Cellar and Bandit.