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Sarah Michelle Gellar blames a Hulu executive for sidesplitting her “Buffy nan Vampire Slayer” reboot series.
“We had an executive connected our show who was not only not a instrumentality of nan original, but was proud to perpetually punctual america that he had ne'er seen nan entirety of nan bid and really it wasn’t for him,” nan character told People successful an question and reply published Monday.
She continued, “That’s very difficult erstwhile you’re taking a spot that is arsenic beloved as ‘Buffy,’ not conscionable to nan world, but to maine and Chloé [Zhao].”
“So that tells you nan uphill conflict that we had been fighting since time one, erstwhile your executive is virtually proud to show you that he didn’t watch it,” she added.
Page Six has reached retired to Hulu for comment.
Gellar, 48, was group to executive nutrient and prima successful “Buffy nan Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale,” pinch Zhao directing and “Poker Face” writers Nora and Lilla Zuckerman penning nan script.
But conscionable arsenic Gellar was group to return nan shape astatine nan SXSW Film & TV Festival premiere of her caller movie “Ready aliases Not 2: Here I Come” connected Friday, she learned that nan task was not moving forward.
“No 1 saw this coming,” she told People, noting that nan timing of nan news was particularly harsh since it happened nan aforesaid play that Zhao’s movie “Hamnet” was up for aggregate awards astatine nan Oscars 2026.
“For them to telephone america connected nan Friday of what should person been Chloé’s triumph thigh for an unthinkable film, and my world premiere of thing that I worked very difficult for is… that says something,” Gellar said.
Zhao, according to Gellar, is conscionable arsenic disappointed complete nan cancellation.
“We don’t want to fto nan fans down. That hurts,” Gellar shared. “Saddened astatine really it was handled and erstwhile it was handled.”
Gellar besides described what it was for illustration connected group erstwhile they filmed nan aviator section starring Ryan Kiera Armstrong arsenic a caller slayer earlier Hulu scrapped nan reboot.
“It was craziness. It was like, ‘Oh, we’re here. We’re doing this,'” she recalled. “I loved nan duality that we had this new, younger slayer who was wherever Buffy was erstwhile nan show started, and past we would prime up pinch wherever Buffy was now.”
Gellar added, “And I’d for illustration to usage this infinitesimal besides to opportunity that Ryan Kiera Armstrong is simply a superstar. I’m gutted that nary 1 will spot her arsenic a slayer.”
Elsewhere successful nan interview, Gellar said that her “Buffy” co-stars person reached retired astir nan news.
“Every azygous 1 of them. No 1 much truthful than David Boreanaz,” she said. “I said to him past night. It conscionable shows nan lasting narration that we have.”
Gellar starred successful “Buffy” alongside Boreanaz, Alyson Hannigan, Nicholas Brendon, Anthony Stewart Head, Charisma Carpenter, Seth Green and James Marsters.
The bid aired for 7 seasons from 1997 to 2003.
