For each technology, there’s a Slayer star’s child trying to interrupt into Hollywood.
After revealing Ryan Kiera Armstrong because the star of the upcoming Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, Sarah Michelle Gellar just lately teased that a number of youngsters of her co-stars from the unique WB/UPN sequence “came in” to audition for the revival as she reunited with castmate Alyson Hannigan.
“I know somebody who auditioned for something on the show,” stated Hannigan of their interview for Us Weekly, to which Gellar responded, “I know somebody who was on the show whose child auditioned on the show. I know a few people from the show whose children came in.”
Hannigan joked, “It better not have been one of my kids!”
Deadline solely revealed this week that Armstrong will play the brand new Slayer within the untitled Buffyverse mission, which Gellar government produces along with reprising her titular position as Buffy Summers. The new character is described in casting supplies as an introverted high-school pupil.
Anthony Stewart Head, Charisma Carpenter, Nicholas Brendan, Alyson Hannigan and Sarah Michelle Gellar in ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ (1997-2003) (twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.)
“From the moment I saw Ryan’s audition, I knew there was only one girl that I wanted by my side,” stated Gellar in a press release. “To have that type of emotional intelligence, and expertise, at such a younger age is actually a present. The bonus is that her smile lights up even the darkest room
In February, Deadline reported that the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot has neared a pilot order from Hulu, with Chloé Zhao directing the pilot, written by Nora and Lilla Zuckerman.
Along with producers Gellar, Zhao and the Zuckermans, Dolly Parton is returning as an government producer on the sequence after producing the unique beneath her Sandollar banner.
Buffy creator Joss Whedon, who additionally wrote the 1992 film the sequence was primarily based on, has no involvement within the reboot. He has not labored in Hollywood in any official capability since dealing with a slew of misconduct allegations in 2021.