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Sarah Michelle Gellarknows how big of an impactBuffy the Vampire Slayermade.
TheWolf Packstar had a laugh at her own expense on Friday’s episode of The Graham Norton Show as she talked about how fans' praise ofBuffyhas the unintended side effect of highlighting her age.
“People love to remind me that it [has been] 20 years,” Gellar, 45, toldGraham Norton. “I love that people still reference it — but I don’t need the actual date and passage of time so people realize how old I am!”
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Gellar stepped into the boots of teenage vampire slayer and world savior Buffy Summers from 1997 to 2003. When she wasn’t dispatching bad guys of all supernatural stripes, Buffy was juggling friendship, romance and family life as a ’90s teen.
Gellar’s latest role is coincidentally primed for longtimeBuffyfans as she explores a different kind of supernatural series in the new Paramount+ seriesWolf Pack.
During her conversation with Norton, 59, Gellar revealed she almost didn’t pick up the script.
“I had no intention of reading it, but then we got deeper in the conversation around mental health, which is very timely,” she said. “The werewolves are a metaphor for teenage anxiety.”
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Wolf Packis now streaming on Paramount+.
source: people.com
