Sarah Michelle Gellar on Why the Buffy Reboot Is Particularly ‘Well timed’

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So most of the initiatives you starred in—from Merciless Intentions to I Know What You Did Final Summer season—have turn out to be fashionable classics and are actually having a second life with the youthful technology. There’s the Merciless Intentions reboot and now the I Know What You Did Final Summer season sequel popping out this 12 months, starring your husband. What has it been prefer to see your work be so beloved?

As an actor, your aim and hope is that you’ve a minimum of one venture in your life that’s impactful to individuals and that stands the check of time and that new generations uncover it. And I’ve been so lucky to have had lots of them. I really feel very fortunate and it’s thrilling. And it’s thrilling that emotionally, numerous these initiatives nonetheless imply rather a lot to individuals.

I heard this nice quote the opposite day from Tubi, as a result of Tubi is the place lots of people are discovering Buffy now. They referred to as it new-stalgia.

Oh, attention-grabbing, what does that imply?

The concept is that it’s nostalgia for us, however my children and their mates, it’s new-stalgia for them. They’re discovering it.

Do your children watch your outdated initiatives?

No. I imply, my children discover it fairly cringe. I believe they suppose they’ve higher issues to do than watch me on one thing, however they’ll watch my mates on stuff. Though my children love I Know What You Did Final Summer season.

Are they excited to see Freddie within the new film?

Yeah. We went as a household to Australia to observe them movie, and we had a good time. It helps when your greatest good friend [Jennifer Kaytin Robinson] can be the director.

I cherished your response when somebody requested you a couple of months in the past when you have been going to be within the film too: No, I’m lifeless.”

I’m lifeless. However I used to be there in spirit.

You have been haunting the set, actually and figuratively.

In additional methods than one.

Let’s discuss Buffy. What was it prefer to see the massive fan response to the reboot information?

Positively overwhelmed, but additionally that’s why I’m doing it. Once you understand what it means and the way excited, you’re heading in the right direction with one thing.

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