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

Might Sarah Michelle Gellar be open to having 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 sequence – 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 combination.

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 sequence 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 good [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 infrequently cameoed as her character on a number of episodes of “Angel,” the sequence’ 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 sequence.

Gellar, who performs CSI Chief Tanya Martin, a brand new character for the “Dexter” franchise, couldn’t assist however word the humorous manner Slater ties into the Buffy mythos by way of a line from the unique 1992 film (with actress Kristy Swanson taking part in 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 fun, Slater famous, “[But] we preserve dwelling, which is sweet.”

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

A lot of them; most notably, co-stars Charisma Carpenter and Michelle Trachtenberg, alleged less-than-ideal working circumstances, 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 might have occurred.

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

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

Nonetheless, she hoped that Whedon’s supposed actions and the backlash that rightfully arose from them didn’t destroy 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 might 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 season” reboot.

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

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

“I’m lifeless,” Gellar reminded her followers, relating to Helen’s unhappy destiny.

“My finest good friend [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, ‘Properly, that may occur, or that would not occur with these characters.”

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