There’s only one particular icon who could get Sarah Michelle Gellar to consider a possible Buffy the Vampire Slayer revival: Dolly Parton.
“I suggest, like, if Dolly Parton is heading to call me I’m usually available to choose a telephone phone from the queen,” Gellar, 47, completely instructed Us Weekly even though attending the Entrance Row Vogue Awards at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles on Friday, April 26.
Centered on the 1992 movie of the similar identify, Buffy premiered as a midseason replacement Television set demonstrate on The WB in 1997 prior to swapping above to the UPN for its previous two seasons. The present adopted Buffy Summer (Gellar) as she fulfilled her destiny to demolish vampires, demons and other forces of darkness. Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Head, Nicholas Brendon and David Boreanez also starred.
Parton, for her portion, served as an uncredited producer on the exhibit via her organization, Sandollar Productions. Earlier this year, Parton, 78, teased that the supernatural series— which remains a cult basic among the supporters right now — could be generating a comeback in the foreseeable future.
“They’re contemplating about bringing it again and revamping it,” Parton told Business enterprise Insider in January. “They’re nonetheless operating on that.”
Even though the “Jolene” singer could seemingly transform her head, Gellar has earlier been outspoken against returning to the position of Buffy. Previous 12 months, the actress told Wide variety that though she is “very proud” of the exhibit, a revival “doesn’t want to be accomplished.” She is, however, “all for” the Buffy tale to proceed with no her.
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“Because there is the story of feminine empowerment,” she continued. “I enjoy the way the demonstrate was left: ‘Every female who has the power can have the power.’ It is set up beautifully for somebody else to have the power. But like I stated, the metaphors of Buffy have been the horrors of adolescence. I think I appear young, but I am not an adolescent.”
Irrespective of not seeking to bounce back into Buffy’s higher heels, Gellar still retains the recollections of her time on BTVS around and dear to her heart, and has even begun viewing the supernatural drama with her little ones: daughter Charlotte, 14, and son Rocky, 11, whom she shares with partner Freddie Prinze Jr.
In 2021, Gellar informed Us that the spouse and children has viewed up to year 5 prior to pressing pause, as she’s experienced to “sort of cherry-pick” about the darker episodes that may not be suitable for more youthful kids. (Buffy dies at the conclusion of year 5, when time 6 capabilities “Seeing Red,” the episode exactly where James Marsters’ character, Spike, tries to rape Buffy in her lavatory.)
“We’re functioning our way slowly but surely by it,” she claimed. “And then they’ve gotten distracted by other reveals.”
Charlotte and Rocky are, nevertheless, way more intrigued in Buffy than any of Gellar’s other work. “They in no way want to watch something that I do,” she stated. “They’re in no way fascinated. I received the initial five episodes and I had to watch it because we ended up doing a panel the subsequent working day. I hadn’t seen it, so we all sat down to check out the initial episode. And then I said, ‘OK men, time to shower,’ and they all arrived back again down [to watch the rest].”
Gellar additional that the duo even obtained up early the upcoming morning to get prepared for faculty to finish the present. “They were, like, adamant that they wished to see the rest,” she stated. “That hardly ever takes place.”
