She’s joyful to move on the stake, although!
Sarah Michelle Gellar has revealed she has no real interest in returning as Buffy Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, regardless of the rumours circulating of a potential revival. The actress, who performed the titular character all through the Nineties and 2000s on the hit teen tv fantasy, is concentrated on her newest position in Paramount’s new collection, Wolf Pack.
Speaking to SFX Magazine, as Movie Web first reported, Gellar has made it clear that she has no intention of reprising her position as Buffy. “I’m not [going to return]. I am very proud of the show that we created and it doesn’t need to be done. We wrapped that up,” Gellar stated, joyful to have left Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 2003, which spurned a spin-off collection, Angel (starring David Boreanaz) from 1994 to 2004. “I am all for them continuing the story, because there’s the story of female empowerment. I love the way the show was left: ‘Every girl who has the power can have the power,’” she stated, giving her blessing for a possible reboot. However, she went on to specific that her age shouldn’t be suited to an adolescent position. “It’s set up perfectly for someone else to have the power. But like I said, the metaphors of Buffy were the horrors of adolescence. I think I look young, but I am not an adolescent.”
Gellar’s feedback come after she beforehand described engaged on the set of Buffy as being “poisonous.” “Women were pitted against each other” to forestall them from turning into “too powerful,” Gellar claimed throughout The Wrap’s Power of Women Summit in Los Angeles in December, the place she joined fellow Buffy the Vampire Slayer actress Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia Chase) in calling out creator, Joss Whedon. “[I believed this is] what all sets were like. Now that I’ve had this opportunity to work with so many more women and men that support women as well, I realized how easy an experience it can be,” Gellar stated.
Rumours of a possible reboot of the hit fantasy collection have circulated for years, with the newest try being placed on maintain in 2022. In 2018, a reboot collection helmed by The CW veteran Monica Owusu-Breen (Midnight, Texas) and Whedon was set to star a black feminine lead in a contemporary replace of the Buffy franchise. However, the undertaking, set to construct “on the mythology of the original,” was allegedly placed on maintain in August final 12 months, with Owusu-Breen revealing she didn’t wish to attempt to recreate the magic of the unique collection, together with changing the present’s solid.
Gellar is at present targeted on her new undertaking, Wolf Pack. Rather than a teenage vampire slayer, Gellar will probably be taking over the position of Kristin Ramsey, an arson investigator described as a “highly regarded expert in her field and no stranger to personal loss.” Set to premiere this month, the Paramount collection is a spin-off of Teen Wolf: The Movie, telling the story of 4 youngsters who’re attacked by a mysterious monster woke up by a Californian wildfire. The collection may also star Amy Pietz (The Sex Lives of College Girls), James Martinez (Love, Victor), and Rio Mangini (Home Before Dark) amongst a large solid.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is at present streaming on Disney+ while Wolf Pack is about to premiere on January 26, 2023 on Paramount +. Check out the official teaser trailer for Wolf Pack under: