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Sarah Michelle Gellar Has No Interest in Playing “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Again
First played by Kristy Swanson in the 1992 movie, vampire-slayer Buffy Summers was most memorably portrayed by Sarah Michelle Gellar in the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” television series, which ran from 1997 to 2003. It’s now been 20 years since we last saw Buffy on screen, with talks of a reboot coming and going in recent years with no real progress.
One person who doesn’t have any interest in returning to the franchise? Sarah Michelle Gellar, who stresses in a new chat with SFX Magazine that her days as Buffy are long behind her.
“I am very proud of the show that we created and it doesn’t need to be done,” the actress told the outlet when asked about a reboot. Gellar added, “We wrapped that up.”
She continued, “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.” It’s set up perfectly for someone else to have the power. But… the metaphors of Buffy were the horrors of adolescence. I think I look young, but I am not an adolescent.”
As you may recall, Gellar had recently nominated Zendaya for the role of Buffy.
Thanks to Movieweb for bringing us the above quotes from SFX Magazine.
Last week we learned that Steve Buscemi had joined the cast of “Wednesday” Season 2 at Netflix, and Variety lets us know that Thandiwe Newton (“Westworld”) has also signed on.
Jenna Ortega is back as Wednesday Addams in the upcoming second season of Netflix’s “Wednesday,” with Steve Buscemi playing the new principal of Nevermore Academy.
Jenna Ortega stars in the hit series as Wednesday Addams, with Luis Guzmán playing Gomez and Catherine Zeta-Jones playing Morticia in Tim Burton’s Netflix series. Christina Ricci also appears in the show, playing a brand new role, with Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester.
“Wednesday” is described as “a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy.” The series follows…
“Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships.”
Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (“Smallville”) are the writers and showrunners, with Tim Burton executive producing and directing several episodes of the show’s debut season.
We don’t know much about “Wednesday” Season 2 at the moment but Jenna Ortega has promised that the new season will be “bolder” and darker than the first season of the series.
“We’ve decided we want to lean into the horror more,” Ortega said last year.
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