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Sarah Michelle Gellar has been known around the world for portraying the role of Buffy Summers in the iconic 1997 supernatural drama seriesBuffy the Vampire Slayer.Created and directed by Joss Whedon, the supernatural series brought Michelle Gellar to the spotlight.
Talking about her Hollywood career, Sarah Michelle Gellar revealed that due to her commitment toBuffy the Vampire Slayer,she had to miss out on several opportunities. These opportunities included rejecting veteran directors David Fincher and Martin Scorsese!
Sarah Michelle Gellar Doesn’t Regret Passing Up Projects
Having her breakthrough role in 1997, Gellar portrayed the role of Buffy Summers inBuffy the Vampire Slayer.Created and directed by Joss Whedon (known for directingThe Avengers), the series was indeed remarkable although it wasn’t considered seriously for awards.
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Talking about her career and Hollywood throughout the years, Michelle Gellar revealed that due to her commitment, she had to miss out on several roles. Stating toThe Guardianthat her mother was a single mom, Michelle Gellar had to help her out and also look out for her career.
“My mom was a single mother, working just above the poverty line, and I got to travel the world, to see and do things that would never have been afforded to me.”
The dedication to the role of Buffy Summers cost Michelle Gellar a chance to work with veteran director David Fincher on the sets of his masterpieceFight Club.The commitment also ended up withSarah Michelle Gellarnot able to star in Martin Scorsese’s iconic 2002 movieGangs of New York.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar Feels Female Superheroes Get Torn Apart!
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Although the actress tried to keep her career floating and relevant, the changing times didn’t allow her to do so. Talking about the change in Hollywood movies and superhero movies (especially Marvel), Sarah Michelle Gellar feels that female superheroes get torn apart by fans due to backward mentality.
“Genre is where women can really succeed and hold an audience. Every time a Marvel movie tries to do a female cast, it just gets torn apart … Unfortunately, audiences weren’t as accepting. There’s still this mentality of ‘the male superhero’, this very backwards way of thinking.”
The actress was last seen in the 2023 series titledWolf Packbut she is not currently attached to any upcoming projects. Sarah Michelle Gellar’s iconic portrayal of Buffy Summer inBuffy the Vampire Slayercan be seen on Hulu or Disney+ in the U.S.
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
