Sarah Michelle Gellar Is on the Buffy Reboot Set Every Day to Advise People on Things Like How to React if They Get Bitten by a Vampire

Buffy the Vampire Slayer fable Sarah Michelle Gellar has been praised by a caller co-star for turning up connected acceptable each time to enactment arsenic an advisor for the series' lore. And yes, that includes describing precisely however radical should look erstwhile they're bitten by a vampire.

Speaking to Deadline, I Know What You Did Last Summer histrion Chase Sui Wonders said Gellar was an "incredible woman" and present an "onset consultant" for the Buffy reboot, successful summation to starring successful its aviator occurrence and serving arsenic an enforcement shaper connected the wide project.

Wonders, who met Gellar connected the acceptable of I Know What You Did Last Summer, volition besides look successful the Buffy reboot's aviator — which officially began filming past week. Should Hulu committee a afloat series, accumulation is expected to proceed successful 2026, for a imaginable debut aboriginal adjacent year.

"It's the imagination to bring backmost a amusement similar this, to person idiosyncratic who was determination time successful and time retired and done the root of the series, beryllium the consultant," Wonders said of Gellar's involvement. "She's the onset advisor for each kinds of things of like, however bash you respond to these types of vampires, oregon however does idiosyncratic respond to a bite, and each the lore she's got stored successful her brain. So, it's precise helpful."

Wonders volition play a caller quality named Justine, who volition look successful a impermanent role. Does this mean she has had first-hand cognition of getting bitten, precluding her from joining the reboot's already-announced main formed of characters? Time volition tell.

"What I tin accidental is that it's a precise amusive mode to participate this series," Wonders said of her character, "and [Gellar] is connected acceptable each day, from arsenic soon arsenic we commencement to erstwhile we wrap. She's precise hands on."

Last week, Gellar posted a down the scenes video offering a archetypal look astatine herself grooming for the bid alongside Ryan Kiera Armstrong, the caller pb of the reboot series, whose quality is reportedly named Nova.

Also acceptable to prima successful the reboot are Faly Rakatohavana arsenic Hugo, Severance's Sarah Bock arsenic Gracie, and Law & Order: SVU's Ava Jean arsenic Larkin. CSI: Vegas' Daniel Di Tomasso volition play Nova's azygous father, portion Frasier's Jack Cutmore-Scott volition represent the schoolhouse teacher Mr. Burke.

Fans precocious got their archetypal glimpse astatine Sarah Michelle Gellar successful costume arsenic Buffy for the archetypal clip successful 20 years — sporting a precise antithetic look from her precocious schoolhouse days.

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