Sarah Michelle Gellar Looks Back On Buffy, Cruel Intentions, Scream 2, And More
This was so much fun to watch, and the timing is kind of crazy, given what happened last week. People Magazine released this yesterday (Gellar is doing press to promote Ready Or Not 2, which opens this week), but I presume it was filmed before that bad Buffy news came out on Friday night. SMG has a lot of fun insights, behind-the-scenes stories, and really nice things to say about all of her co-stars, and the biggest revelation to me is that she was originally cast to play Cordelia. I only watched all of Buffy for the first time back in 2020, and aside from a few subpar episodes that didn’t quite work, the whole series really is as good as everyone said it was.
Side note: They did a great job covering almost all of her work…but I can’t believe they didn’t mention SMG as Sydney Rutledge in SWAN’S CROSSING! Only us 90’s kids will remember the short-lived teen soap, which aired weekdays for two months in the summer of 1992. I think I had crushes on all the guys in the show, and here was the theme song:
