Here is What Sarah Michelle Gellar Says About A ‘Buffy’ Reboot

Might Sarah Michelle Gellar be open to having yet another go as “the chosen one” Buffy Summers, a.okay.a. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”?

For years, talks centered on reviving or rebooting the hit 1996 TV collection – and its contested however beloved 1992 movie counterpart – have stalled.

Nevertheless, in an age the place restarts of “Intercourse and the Metropolis,” “Will and Grace,” and even “Frasier” run rampant, the 47-year-old Gellar is now including her voice to the combo.

Whereas stopping at “The Drew Barrymore Present” to advertise the upcoming “Dexter” prequel, “Dexter: Unique Sin,” Gellar was requested if becoming a member of the brand new collection opened her thoughts to a possible Buffy reboot or revival someday sooner or later.

After acknowledging Barrymore’s inquiry as one she had heard greater than as soon as, Gellar provided a considerate response.

“It’s humorous, [because] I all the time used to say ‘no,’” she started, “as a result of it’s in its bubble and it’s so excellent [as is].”

Then, after noting the recognition of the “Intercourse and the Metropolis” spinoff, “… And Simply Like That,” and the “Dexter” prequel, she adopted, “There are methods do it, [however]. It does get your thoughts pondering.”

Gellar’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” ran for seven seasons, airing its swan music in 2003 on the now-defunct UPN (Seasons 1-4 aired on the WB).

She appeared in all 144 episodes and sometimes cameoed as her character on a number of episodes of “Angel,” the collection’ spinoff starring David Boreanaz.

Actor Christian Slater, who performs a youthful model of Dexter’s father Harry Morgan within the “Unique Sin” prequel, appeared with Gellar on Barrymore’s present to assist promote the brand new collection.

Gellar, who performs CSI Chief Tanya Martin, a brand new character for the “Dexter” franchise, couldn’t assist however observe the humorous method Slater ties into the Buffy mythos by way of a line from the unique 1992 film (with actress Kristy Swanson enjoying the character), as Web page Six notes.

“The well-known line is, ‘All I need to do is graduate highschool, go to Europe, marry Christian Slater, and die!”

With amusing, Slater famous, “[But] we hold residing, which is sweet.”

Starting in 2021, a number of actors from “Buffy” and “Angel” bravely shared their accounts of engaged on each collection beneath franchise creator Joss Whedon.

Lots of them; most notably, co-stars Charisma Carpenter and Michelle Trachtenberg, alleged less-than-ideal working situations, together with verbal abuse from Whedon.

Gellar would share a few of her experiences with The Hollywood Reporter in 2023 however selected to not dive too deeply into what could have occurred.

“I’ve come to an excellent place with it, the place it’s simpler to speak about,” she informed the publication, with out mentioning Whedon’s title. “I’ll by no means inform my full story as a result of I don’t get something out of it.”

“I’ve stated all I’m going to say as a result of no person wins,” she surmised. “Everyone loses.”

Nonetheless, she hoped that Whedon’s supposed actions and the backlash that rightfully arose from them didn’t damage the present’s general legacy.

“I’ll all the time be happy with [what we did on] ‘Buffy,’ Gellar expressed. “I’ll all the time be happy with what my castmates did, what I did.”

Although she could have turned the web page regarding her function as “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” Gellar needed to make clear earlier this 12 months that she wouldn’t be showing within the soon-to-come “I Know What You Did Final Summer time” reboot.

After unintentionally posting a shot of her visiting the set of the upcoming movie a number of weeks in the past – one thing she wasn’t presupposed to do (“I obtained in a little bit little bit of bother [for that],” she not too long ago informed one other publication) – followers started to imagine that Gellar would even be returning as Helen Shivers, her character from the primary film.

The one drawback is… effectively, Helen’s not with us.

“I’m useless,” Gellar reminded her followers, concerning Helen’s unhappy destiny.

“My finest pal [Jennifer Kaytin Robinson] is directing it,” she continued, “so we joke that I’ve an unofficial job, which is I’m continuity,” she explains. “So, I am all the time the one telling her, ‘Nicely, that might occur, or that would not occur with these characters.”

The primary episode of “Dexter: Unique Sin” may be streamed now on Paramount+.