Sarah Michelle Gellar Reveals The One Thing That Annoys Her About Buffy

Posted on 28/01/2023 by Boris Clair

Vampires don’t age, but Sarah Michelle Gellar does — and she doesn’t want to be reminded of her mortality.

On Friday, the Buffy The Vampire Slayer star appeared on The Graham Norton Show, where the host noted that her iconic teen drama has been off the air for 20 years now.

The final episode, Chosen, was broadcast on May 20, 2003, on UPN, per IMDb.

“A week now people have been reminding me,” Sarah Michelle said. “But yes, 20 years.”

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Graham then asked the Wolf Pack star if she thought it was “annoying” or “lovely” that people are still talking about Buffy today.

“No, I love that people reference it!” Sarah Michelle insisted. “I just don’t need [a reminder of] the actual date and passage of time.”

She elaborated: “Because then it’s like, ‘Oh, now we realise how old you are.’ Otherwise I feel like it’s maybe a little bit of a mystery.”

Meanwhile, Sarah Michelle recently revealed another aspect of Buffy that she doesn’t exactly love, either.

While speaking to Who What Wear, the actor suggested that the iconic crucifix she sported on the show wasn’t something the fashionable Buffy Summers would actually wear.

“[The character] Angel gives her the cross in episode, I think, seven, maybe, of the first season. And obviously I was going to be wearing this cross forever, and it was just made by a prop master,” Sarah Michelle recalled, before quickly noting that she had nothing against prop masters.

“But you want your costume designer to design something that you’re going to have to wear with every outfit. And the thing is — you know, I have a tiny torso — and the thing is like this big,” she said, using her hands to indicate the large size.

“It felt like the Mr. T cross,” she joked.

Sarah Michelle Gellar Says There’s One Part Of Buffy She Refuses To Show Her Kids

Posted on 20/01/2023 by Boris Clair

Sarah Michelle Gellar wants her son to remain Team Spike.

The former Buffy The Vampire Slayer star has told The Hollywood Reporter that earlier in the pandemic, she decided to rewatch the show with her kids, since they were now old enough and expressed interest.

Gellar has two kids, Charlotte, 13, and Rocky, 10, with her husband of 20 years, actor Freddie Prinze Jr.

“We watched seasons one through five,” Gellar said, adding that after viewing these seasons, her kids have taken sides on which of Buffy’s vampiric romances they prefer.

Gellar said her daughter is a fan of broody, tortured Angel, while her son likes the punk-rock villain-turned-hero Spike.

And it seems like Gellar curated which episodes of the show’s seven seasons her kids would watch in order for her son to retain his opinion.

“We skipped around a lot on those last two [seasons],” Gellar told the outlet. “I have trouble with six. It wasn’t appropriate for them at the time, and I just don’t want to rewatch it.”

Gellar, David Boreanaz, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter, Anthony Stewart Head, Seth Green in a cast photo for "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." — Gellar, David Boreanaz, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter, Anthony Stewart Head, Seth Green in a cast photo for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

Season 6 of Buffy The Vampire Slayer is certainly the series’ most controversial — and marked a network switch from The WB to the now defunct UPN in 2002.

In that season, Buffy is resurrected from the dead, is traumatised by it, and has a season-long depression. During this time, she engages in a toxic sexual relationship with her former enemy, the vampire Spike.

Spike, portrayed by the charming James Marsters, was a beloved, three-dimensional character with a strong redemption arc at this point in the long-running series. His romance with Buffy wasn’t healthy, but his friendship with her certainly was.

So, it seemed completely out of character and unnecessarily disturbing when Spike attempts to rape Buffy in the Season 6 episode Seeing Read.

The violent and stomach-churning scene left many fans feeling “betrayed” by the show because there never seemed to be any real repercussions for Spike’s actions. Instead, the show attempts to manipulate the audience into rooting for Spike, who uses the experience as inspiration to get a soul. This leads to his Season 7 arc in which he gains Buffy’s love and becomes one of the show’s biggest heroes.

The episode has been condemned in CNN, Salon and Vulture as irresponsible and harmful storytelling.

Marsters, who played Spike, told Vice in 2017 that the “scene sent me into therapy, which turned out to be a very good thing for me.”

He also told Vice that although he still thought the scene was a “worthy risk,” he understands why fans find it such a misstep.

“We did traumatise the audience maybe a little too much,” he told Vice at the time. “I’ll now routinely turn down roles with rape scenes in them. Not again.”

Need help? Visit RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Online Hotline or the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s website.

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