Buffy Star Sarah Michelle Gellar Slams ‘Extremely Toxic Male Set’

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is regularly cited as an avant-garde and feminist series… Nevertheless, behind the scenes There is nothing progressive about this famous program from the early 2000s, as the many testimonies of its actresses reveal.

toxic masculinity

While several cast members have denounced a particularly toxic work environment under the direction of Joss Whedon, now it’s the turn of the lead actress of the series, Sarah Michelle Gellarto lead the way on a topic that has been kept quiet for more than 15 years.

As revealed The casingthe Buffy interpreter confided during a feminist roundtable organized in Los Angeles on December 14:

” For so long I’ve been on a set that I think was known to be a extremely toxic male dish and it was ingrained in my head that this was what all sets looked like. The women were pitted against each other. If women became friends, so we were getting too powerfuland we had to stay discreet. »

A new wave of accusations

If Sarah Michelle Gellar’s name is permanently associated with that of Buffy, who she played from 1997 to 2003, the actress then worked on other projects such as sexual intentions or Remember… last summer. The actress explained that these filming experiences allowed her to do just that become aware of the problematic dimension of the plateau of buffy :

“Now that I’ve had the opportunity to work with so many other women and men who support women, I realized how easy it can be. »

Recall that it is not the first time that the interpreter of Buffy Summers talks about this topic. In 2021 she supported Charisma Carpenter, her playmate who I had accused Joss Whedon of harassment. Sarah Michelle Gellar then posted a message on Instagram in which she had, this time, explicitly mentioned the name of the creator of the series: ” While I’m proud to have my name associated with Buffy Summers, I never want to be like Joss Whedon again. we could read on the post.

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