Buffy’s Sarah Michelle Gellar Talks Alyson Hannigan, David Boreanaz Feud Rumors, Blames Toxic Environment
22.03.2022 - 00:37
/ usmagazine.com
Getting real. Sarah Michelle Gellar opened up about the tensions between her and her costars on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, on which she starred from 1997 to 2003.
“Look, we worked really hard hours,” the Cruel Intentions actress, 44, said about her camaraderie with her castmates. “We were young, we had ups and downs. Everybody had arguments.”
Gellar was interviewed for Evan Ross Katz’s book, Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts, published by Hachette Books on Tuesday, March 15. In the pop culture tome, which was released on the cult series’ 25th anniversary, she spoke candidly about her time on the Buffy set — an environment helmed by showrunner Joss Whedon, who was later accused of misconduct by several cast and crew members.
The Buffy Summers actress specifically named costars David Boreanaz and Alyson Hannigan — both of whom she was rumored to have feuds with — as people that she had tension with but admitted her own faults, too.
“There were times where David could be a handful. He never really was to me, but I’m sure [he was],” the I Know What You Did Last Summer star claimed of the actor, who played Angel, Buffy’s first love. “And I’m sure I was the same way to people also, right? It wasn’t rosy. Nobody gets along all the time. And Alyson and I had moments. There’s no question. But you’re young.”
Rumors of a feud between Gellar and Hannigan, who played Buffy’s bestie Willow Rosenberg, were reignited when the How I Met Your Mother alum, 47, told Andy Cohen in 2013 that the Scooby Doo actress was “annoyed” when filming the cult series.
Hannigan clarified to Katz, “It wasn’t a diss! She said that herself! She did an interview saying that is why the show was ending! No diss, just fact.”
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