Getting actual. Sarah Michelle Gellar opened up in regards to the tensions between her and her costars on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, on which she starred from 1997 to 2003.
“Look, we labored actually onerous hours,” the Merciless Intentions actress, 44, mentioned about her camaraderie together with her castmates. “We had been younger, we had ups and downs. Everyone had arguments.”
Gellar was interviewed for Evan Ross Katz’s e book, Into Each Technology a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts, printed by Hachette Books on Tuesday, March 15. Within the popular culture tome, which was launched on the cult sequence’ twenty fifth anniversary, she spoke candidly about her time on the Buffy set — an surroundings helmed by showrunner Joss Whedon, who was later accused of misconduct by a number of solid and crew members.
The Buffy Summers actress particularly named costars David Boreanaz and Alyson Hannigan — each of whom she was rumored to have feuds with — as people who she had pressure with however admitted her personal faults, too.
“There have been occasions the place David might be a handful. He by no means actually was to me, however I’m positive [he was],” the I Know What You Did Final Summer season star claimed of the actor, who performed Angel, Buffy’s old flame. “And I’m positive I used to be the identical technique to individuals additionally, proper? It wasn’t rosy. No one will get alongside on a regular basis. And Alyson and I had moments. There’s no query. However you’re younger.”
Rumors of a feud between Gellar and Hannigan, who performed Buffy’s bestie Willow Rosenberg, had been reignited when the How I Met Your Mom alum, 47, advised Andy Cohen in 2013 that the Scooby Doo actress was “aggravated” when filming the cult sequence.
Hannigan clarified to Katz, “It wasn’t a diss! She mentioned that herself! She did an interview saying that’s the reason the present was ending! No diss, simply truth.”
For her half, Gellar elaborated on her personal habits within the e book, noting, “There are occasions the place I want I might have finished issues in another way.”
The solid of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer.’ Shutterstock
“I used to be actually younger, and I didn’t have any outdoors life,” she defined, including that she “didn’t know how one can deal with” all the strain she was underneath. “I used to be the one which was all the time working and typically I might be resentful of the truth that they didn’t need to work on a regular basis. It ebbs and flows, and anybody that tells you they get together with everybody on a regular basis, it’s simply not true.”
She additionally acknowledged that the surroundings during which they had been working was poisonous.
“I believe that sadly, the set we had been on and the world we had been in was pitting us towards one another,” the Lengthy Island native mentioned. “I believe it might have been totally different if it was right now. It will have been a really totally different relationship. However we’ve got a fantastic relationship now.”
Gellar and Hannigan have displayed their friendship on social media. The Ring actress even attended a December 2020 party for her former costar’s daughter, Keeva.
The Scream 2 star is just not the primary to debate Buffy’s poisonous surroundings. Charisma Carpenter, who performed Cordelia Chase on each Buffy and spinoff Angel, got here ahead with allegations of abuse towards Whedon, 46 in February 2021, claiming that she skilled “sure occasions that also traumatize me to this present day.”
Charisma Carpenter and Sarah Michelle Gellar on ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer.’ Richard Cartwright/twentieth Century Fox Television/Kobal/Shutterstock
“Joss Whedon abused his energy on quite a few events whereas engaged on the units of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel,” she wrote by way of Twitter on the time. “Whereas he discovered his misconduct amusing, it solely served to accentuate my efficiency anxiousness, disempower me, and alienate me from my friends. The disturbing incidents triggered a persistent bodily situation from which I nonetheless endure. It’s with a beating, heavy coronary heart that I say I coped in isolation and, at occasions, destructively.”
The Veronica Mars alum, 51, cited a number of examples of alleged abuse from the Buffy creator, and she or he was backed up by her costar Amber Benson, who tweeted in response, “Buffy was a poisonous surroundings and it begins on the high. @AllCharisma is talking fact and I assist her 100%. There was lots of injury finished throughout that point and many people are nonetheless processing it twenty plus years later.”
Gellar, too, stood up for her costars within the wake of the allegations towards Whedon.
“Whereas I’m proud to have my title related to Buffy Summers, I related to the title Joss Whedon,” Gellar wrote by way of Instagram on the time. “I’m extra targeted on elevating my household and surviving a pandemic presently so I cannot be making any additional statements. Presently, however I stand with all survivors of abuse and I’m pleased with them for talking out.”
Into Each Technology a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts by Evan Ross Katz is now out there wherever books are bought.
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