Sarah Michelle Gellar Dropped a 'Sparkling' Hint That She's Taking Her 'Buffy' Return Very Seriously
If Sarah Michelle Gellar’s latest Instagram post doesn’t get you excited about the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, we don’t know what will.
The 48-year-old actress isn’t just dusting off her character, Buffy Summers; she’s also making sure she’s as strong as possible to tackle the role. Gellar isn’t doing it alone, though; she’s taking a protégé with her. Ryan Kiera Armstrong, who is starring in the Hulu pilot as a new slayer on the scene, enjoyed a fierce workout with her to prep for those vampire-slaying fight scenes.
The women lifted weights, worked their core, and challenged their balance in the video clip as Scandal’s hit single, “The Warrior,” played. “Warrior 1 and 2. We don’t sweat … we sparkle,” Gellar wrote in the caption. This fierce moment just makes the long-awaited reboot more of a reality for fans.
In mid-July, Gellar teased the table read for the pilot by sharing snapshots of her name card, a Buffy action figure, and the first script. She gave Vanity Fair some inside scoop into the reimagining of the original WB series, telling them that the show “will be lighter than the last few seasons of the original.
“We will try to find a balance between new and old characters,” she added. “My dream is to bring back everyone who has died, but space will have to be made for new stories as well.”
When it comes to the actual script, Gellar noted that they are “trying to figure out how to modernize the themes of the series, especially what it means to feel like an outsider in a world dominated by social media.” But viewers know that it took a long time to get the mom of two to a place where she wanted to revisit this character.
“For so many years, I said no to a possible return of the series,” she said. “I didn’t want to reintroduce something we had already seen. I waited for the right time to come. Then [director] Chloé [Zhao], a big Buffy fan, proposed the project to me, and I accepted. The gestation was long. It’s been three years, and we’re still working on it.”
We are so glad Gellar is finally ready to kick some vampire butt again.
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