Revisiting the Buffyverse! Buffy the Vampire Slayer wasn’t simply entertaining. The collection broke floor in some ways.
Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, the supernatural drama follows Buffy Summers as she slays vampires with the help of her pals. Alyson Hannigan, David Boreanaz, Nicholas Brendon, Anthony Stewart Head, James Marsters, Michelle Trachtenberg and plenty of extra were in the cast.
The series, created through Joss Whedon (Justice League and Avengers), is in accordance with the 1992 film of the similar name. It ran for seven seasons on The WB from 1997 to 2003. The display’s popularity led to the by-product titled Angel, in which Boreanaz starred as the collection lead for 5 seasons.
Buffy used to be praised for featuring a strong feminist hero and showcasing an LGBTQ romance between Hannigan’s personality Willow Rosenberg and Amber Benson’s Tara Maclay.
Speaking to The Huffington Post in 2013, Hannigan opened up about how commemorated she used to be to be a part of the pop culture shift. “I used to be so grateful to were a part of any such wonderful dating,” the American Pie actress defined. “The people who it’s touched that I’ve met … it’s this kind of gift to have been ready to do this.”
Despite the display’s legacy, a reboot or revival isn’t necessarily in the cards. In an interview with Parade, Gellar previously addressed the probability of the sequence being revisited.
“There’s a time and a place for everything and when something is done truly, in reality smartly, you don’t need to reboot it, because it still holds up,” she explained in October 2019. “And so I believe that’s what I battle with somewhat bit. People uncover Buffy nowadays and adore it simply the identical as if they found out it twenty years in the past. There are movies I watch, like Sixteen Candles, I like it simply as a lot lately as I did then. Why would I wish to see it redone? So I'm most certainly in the minority on that.”
The Cruel Intentions big name added, “That being stated, move reboot it in case you have a brand new solution to tell the story with new people, and convey other folks that perhaps haven’t observed it. In the finish, I consider it's going to simplest carry extra viewers to the authentic. And how significantly better the original is.”
In February 2021, Charisma Carpenter, who performed Cordelia Chase on Buffy and its spinoff, Angel, accused Whedon of creating a toxic work environment on the set of both shows.
“For nearly two decades, I have held my tongue and even made excuses for positive occasions that traumatize me to nowadays,” Carpenter wrote by way of Instagram. “Joss Whedon abused his energy on a lot of events whilst working on the sets of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. While he found his misconduct a laugh, it simplest served to accentuate my performance anxiety, disempower me, and alienate me from my friends. The tense incidents induced a chronic bodily situation from which I still suffer. It is with a beating, heavy heart that I say I coped in isolation and, from time to time, destructively. … Joss has a history of being casually cruel. He has created adversarial and toxic work environments since his early occupation. I do know as a result of I experienced it first-hand. Repeatedly.”
Carpenter went directly to allege that Whedon was once “imply and biting and disparaging about others openly, and ceaselessly performed favorites, placing people in opposition to one some other to compete and vie for his attention and approval.” She also claimed he referred to as her “fat” when she used to be pregnant with son Donovan, adding she was once ordered to work “long and bodily challenging days” right through her pregnancy.
While Whedon has but to handle the accusations, Gellar spoke out via Instagram.
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“While I am proud to have my name associated with Buffy Summers, I don’t need to be without end related to the identify Joss Whedon,” she wrote at the time. ”I'm extra fascinated about raising my family and surviving a pandemic lately so I will no longer be making any further statements. At this time, however I stand with all survivors of abuse and I’m proud of them for talking out.”
Scroll down to look what the cast has been as much as since the collection ended:
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