Sarah Michelle Gellar Hopes ‘Buffy’ Legacy Hasn’t Changed Despite Allegations Against Joss Whedon

Sarah Michelle Gellar returns. If ever she’s gone. The actress, who became famous more than two decades ago with the series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and films like “I know what you did last summer” or Cruel Intentionsreturns to fantastic horror with her new series, “Wolf Pack”, a spin-off of “Teen Wolf”, in which, in addition to having a starring role, she serves as a producer and mentor to a new generation of actors.

On the occasion of the premiere of ‘Wolf Pack’ on January 26 in the United States (there is still no news on its launch in Spain), The Hollywood Reporter published an extensive report on her career, with juicy statements from the actress on the series that made her an icon of popular culture and who, recently, has been affected by the allegations of violent behavior leveled against its creator, Joss Whedonand reports of a toxic work environment on the set that came to light years after its demise, a situation that would be repeated on the set of ‘Justice League,’ according to allegations by Ray Fisher and Gal Gadot.

With its creator fallen from grace, ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ has entered a phase of reappraisal for many, but the truth is that love for the series and its influence on culture is too strong to be completely overshadowed by controversy. This is believed by Gellar herself, who despite having personally experienced Whedon’s alleged tyrannical behavior and describing the set of ‘Buffy’, a series considered a point of reference for feminism on television, as a “extremely toxic male environment” (the wrapper), wait to “his legacy hasn’t changed”despite the controversy surrounding its primary creator.

“I’m not the only person going through this and I hope his legacy hasn’t changed”Gellar tells THR. “I hope it brings success back to the people who put all their work into it. I will always be proud of ‘Buffy.’ I will always be proud of what my co-stars did, what I did. It was a work situation? ideal? Not at all. But it’s okay to love ‘Buffy’ for what we created, because it was spectacular.”. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is one of television’s most iconic series, admired by fans and scrutinized by academics, its impact is too great and the work of all those who made it possible is too precious to be thrown away away the alleged behavior of the man in charge.

The season you can no longer watch

Anyone would say that, due to her experience on the set of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” for seven years, Gellar wouldn’t be able to revisit the series, but quite the opposite. Proof that she is proud of her is that during her last delivery he saw her again with her children, the offspring of her marriage to fellow actor Freddie Prinze Jr., Charlotte (b. 2009) and Rocky (b. in 2012). But yes, not in full: “We Watched Seasons 1-5”reveals the actress. “We skipped quite a bit of the last two”. Specifically, Gellar cites the sixth season as the most problematic, both for the age of the children and for how hard it was for her: “It wasn’t appropriate for them at the time and I don’t want to see it again”.

The sixth season of “Buffy” is considered the darkest and most mature of the series. It’s the first to come out after the chain switch (from The WB to the now defunct UPN, after a fifth season that was conceived as a possible ending) and, curiously, it didn’t have Whedon as showrunner, but Marti Noxon. In it, Willow (Alyson Hannigan) falls into a dark spiral due to her addiction to magic and Buffy goes through an existential crisis which leads her to develop a shady sexual relationship with the vampire Spike (James Marsters), who later attempts to rape her. . . Still, season 6 has its defenders, who praise its risk and maturity, and includes one of the most iconic episodes of the series (and television history), the musical ‘Once More, with Feeling’.