Sarah Michelle Gellar was "annoyed" to play Buffy

[frelling_tralk]

ACTRESS Alyson Hannigan says Buffy co-star Sarah Michelle Gellar was "annoyed" at having to play the vampire fighting hero.
In a TV interview, the How I Met Your Mother star was asked who was most annoyed to be on Buffy the Vampire Slayer by the seventh and final season.

"Sarah," the 39-year-old replied. "Well, she had a big career going on ... It was a lot of work."

Hannigan was then asked after what season did Gellar start hating Buffy.

"Uh, three," Hannigan answered.

Gellar, 36, spoke years ago about the problems she had with committing to a series.

"I was 18 when I started the show; I'm 26. I'm married. I never see my husband [Freddie Prinze Jr.]," she said. "This has been the longest span of my life in one place. There've been times where that's been difficult - you want to pick up and go, try other things, live in different places. It feels right, and you have to listen to that."

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Because it would have been too professional for Alyson to just respond with, "I can't comment on that"?

Comments

[cinderella81.livejournal.com]

Wow ... she definitely could have been a bit more professional about SMG ... I'm sure it was hard for everyone doing a show that went for so many seasons and basically kept you right where you were because of said show. But wow, I would never do that to a coworker ... if SMG wanted to talk about it, she'd talk about it without being forced to ...

Wow.

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Giles icon is pretty hot and I don't usually find him hot.

Now, however, I may have to go rewatch some Taster's Choice commericials!

:-)

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Apparently she's now protesting on twitter that she didn't mean it in a bad way, but yeah I think that if an interviewer is digging for dirt and asks you if any actor was really annoyed with doing the show, that most actors would just respond by laughing it off and you know I can't comment on that :shrugs: She must have been aware that it would stir up some drama to put Sarah's name out there with that association, especially when Sarah already came in for a lot of hate from the fans for being the one to end Buffy (even though Joss also said that he was burnt-out and everyone on staff saw season 7 as the last. Scenes like Faith and Spike flirting in Dirty Girls were specifically included to test out different spin-off ideas)

[liliaeth]

Especially since watching the season, the only ones of the regulars who didn't act like they were tired to be on the show, were SMG and James.