Sarah Michelle Gellar is proud to have been the official vampire slayer of her generation.
In a recent interview with SFX Magazine, Gellar discussed her time on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” revealing how she feels about the show 20 years after the final episode aired.
Gellar said she is “very proud of the show that we created,” but she doesn’t think her story as Buffy needs to continue, saying “we wrapped that up.”
While she doesn’t want her character’s story to continue, she is “all for them continuing the story,” because it tells “the story of female empowerment.”
‘BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER’ STAR SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR REVEALS ‘EXTREMELY TOXIC MALE’ SET EARLY IN HER CAREER
David Boreanaz and Sarah Michelle Gellar starred together in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” as love interests.
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“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,” Gellar explained. “But, like I said, the metaphors of ‘Buffy’ were the horrors of adolescence. I think I look young, but I am not an adolescent.”
The actress starred as the show’s titular character seven seasons, starting in 1997 until the show came to an end in 2003. Her character, Buffy Summers, inherited the mission of destroying vampires and other demons from her town of Sunnydale, which was built on a gateway to the realm of the demons.
Gellar starred alongside David Boreanaz, who plays Angel, a vampire cursed with a soul that makes him unable to feast on humans, as well as Alyson Hannigan, Nicholas Brendon, Charisma Carpenter, Michelle Trachtenberg and Seth Green, whose characters team up to help Buffy fight the demons.
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