Sarah Michelle Gellar opens up about how Dolly Parton was a producer Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
At the visit The Tonight Show with Jimmy FallonGellar was asked if Parton was an uncredited producer on the show, which she starred in for seven seasons.
“Yes, little known fact, the legend Dolly Parton was a producer,” she said on the NBC late-night show. “We never saw her [but] First we got Christmas presents with our names on them and I was like, ‘She doesn’t even know who I am.’ And one day someone asked her about it and she complimented the show and my performance. I thought, ‘Oh, I could die now. Dolly Parton knows who I am and thinks I’m good.’”
Sandollar Productions, which Parton founded with her then-business partner Sandy Gallin, was behind the supernatural drama along with Mutant Enemy Productions and 20th Century Fox Television. In addition to BuffyParton’s production company was also credited with the Angel Spin-off that ran for 5 seasons.
Other TV shows produced by Sandollar were tourist trap And All American Girl with Margaret Cho. Sandollar Productions was also behind films like father of the bride (and the sequel), sabrina, Kicking and screaming, Fly away home And shine through.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer revolves around Buffy Summers, a high school girl who becomes the chosen one to fight evil forces.
The teen drama, created by Joss Whedon, is based on the 1992 film of the same name by Fran Rubel Kuzui, which Whedon also wrote. The WB aired the first five seasons of the show before moving to UPN for two more seasons.
Source: Deadline
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