Throughout an interview with Parade, actresses Sarah Michelle Gellar and Alyson Hannigan addressed the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” reboot — which was confirmed to be within the works for Hulu earlier this 12 months — however the stars remained mum on particulars.
“I do know by no means to say by no means, however I’m excited to listen to what Sarah says it’s like,” Hannigan mentioned.
“That appears honest,” Gellar laughed.
Gellar did verify that the collection would pay tribute to the late actress Michelle Trachtenberg, who performed her youthful sister Daybreak Summers seasons 5 by way of 7.
“We’ll be capable of do one thing,” Gellar mentioned. “We’ll do what’s acceptable.”
“I’m positive it is going to be dealt with with utter grace,” Hannigan added.
Gellar, who has reteamed with Hannigan for an consciousness marketing campaign surrounding meningitis vaccination, Ask2BSure, mentioned that she and her former co-star share a straightforward rapport on set.
“We nonetheless end one another’s sentences. once I’m misplaced, and I do know if you end up,” she mentioned. “I believe our … work habits are very comparable, so whenever you method issues the identical manner, it simply evolves.”
“Even capturing, I really feel like we simply had this … unstated dialogue,” Hannigan mentioned.
Final month, Deadline reported that Ryan Kiera Armstrong would star alongside former forged members within the reboot’s pilot — which to this point is all that has been ordered. However Gellar was publicly immune to the thought of a “Buffy” reboot for a few years, saying in 2022, “I’m very pleased with the present that we created and it doesn’t should be achieved … We wrapped that up.”
However Gellar flipped on the thought after listening to Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao’s plan for the collection’ continuation.
“The eagerness that [she] got here to me with, what she needed to do with the present and the character, and why ‘Buffy’ is required now — it was the primary time the place I assumed, ‘OK, there’s a motive,’” Gellar advised Elite Day by day. In the identical interview, she mentioned the revival had been within the work for 4 years.
“We gained’t do it until it’s 100% proper and there’s 100% a motive,” she added.
One place followers is not going to see Gellar is within the “I Know What You Did Final Summer time” sequel, out July 18. The reboot’s director mentioned that Gellar resisted the thought of a return.
“I attempted, OK? I harassed her! However she is useless,” Robinson advised Leisure Weekly. “I attempted to pitch some loopy shit too. I used to be like, ‘What if it’s such as you weren’t useless and also you’re really alive, however in hiding?’ And Sarah’s like, ‘I used to be on ice. I used to be probably the most useless an individual may very well be. You possibly can see my frozen physique.’ I used to be like, ‘Yeah, however what if?’ And she or he mentioned, ‘I’m useless. I’m Sarah Useless Gellar.’”