During an question and reply pinch Parade, actresses Sarah Michelle Gellar and Alyson Hannigan addressed nan “Buffy nan Vampire Slayer” reboot — which was confirmed to beryllium successful nan works for Hulu earlier this twelvemonth — but nan stars remained mum connected details.
“I cognize ne'er to opportunity never, but I’m excited to perceive what Sarah says it’s like,” Hannigan said.
“That seems fair,” Gellar laughed.
Gellar did corroborate that nan bid would salary tribute to nan precocious character Michelle Trachtenberg, who played her younger sister Dawn Summers seasons 5 done 7.
“We’ll beryllium capable to do something,” Gellar said. “We’ll do what’s appropriate.”
“I’m judge it will beryllium handled pinch utter grace,” Hannigan added.
Gellar, who has reteamed pinch Hannigan for an consciousness run surrounding meningitis vaccination, Ask2BSure, said that she and her erstwhile co-star stock an easy rapport connected set.
“We still decorativeness each other’s sentences. You cognize erstwhile I’m lost, and I cognize erstwhile you are,” she said. “I deliberation our … activity habits are very similar, truthful erstwhile you attack things nan aforesaid way, it conscionable evolves.”
“Even shooting, I consciousness for illustration we conscionable had this … unspoken dialogue,” Hannigan said.
Last month, Deadline reported that Ryan Kiera Armstrong would prima alongside erstwhile formed members successful nan reboot’s aviator — which truthful acold is each that has been ordered. But Gellar was publically resistant to nan thought of a “Buffy” reboot for galore years, saying successful 2022, “I americium very proud of nan show that we created and it doesn’t request to beryllium done … We wrapped that up.”
But Gellar flipped connected nan thought aft hearing Oscar-winning head Chloé Zhao’s plan for nan series’ continuation.
“The passion that [she] came to maine with, what she wanted to do pinch nan show and nan character, and why ‘Buffy’ is needed now — it was nan first clip wherever I thought, ‘OK, there’s a reason,’” Gellar told Elite Daily. In nan aforesaid interview, she said nan revival had been successful nan activity for 4 years.
“We won’t do it unless it’s 100 percent correct and there’s 100 percent a reason,” she added.
One spot fans will not spot Gellar is successful nan “I Know What You Did Last Summer” sequel, retired July 18. The reboot’s head said that Gellar resisted nan thought of a return.
“I tried, OK? I harassed her! But she is dead,” Robinson told Entertainment Weekly. “I tried to transportation immoderate crazy crap too. I was like, ‘What if it’s for illustration you weren’t dormant and you’re really alive, but successful hiding?’ And Sarah’s like, ‘I was connected ice. I was nan astir dormant a personification could be. You tin spot my stiff body.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, but what if?’ And she said, ‘I americium dead. I americium Sarah Dead Gellar.’”