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"?

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[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

Rumors abounded while the show was on the air that SMG was all up in AHs face while the show was airing making sure that AHs costumes made her look less attractive than SMG and whittling away AHs dialog so that it never became the Willow show. Considering what happened to Shannan Doherty on Charmed I'm not sure I blame her, but it had to annoy AH. And considering that SMG never befriended her castmates the way they befriended each other I'm not surprised by any of this.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

I've never heard that before, there were clashes between Alyson and Sarah by all accounts, but I find it hard to believe that Joss would let Sarah dictate how much dialogue he gave the supporting cast

ETA Joss is supposedly a real stickler for actors not changing dialogue in any way and he wants it said exactly as written, that's why he got so annoyed with Donald Sunderland on the Buffy movie because he kept rewriting everything. Joss complained in interviews that DS was an actor, not a writer, and all his little rewrites didn't make any sense and were ruining the movie. That's part of why he was happy to move to TV, because working on moves led him to believe that the writer got no respect when it come to keeping their words intact

[sum1-different.livejournal.com]

["And considering that SMG never befriended her castmates the way they befriended each other"]

Unsubstantiated rumor. Sarah befriended Boreanaz, Amber Benson, Seth Green and Michelle Trachtenberg for sure and probably others.

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

I wanted to clarify my statement. I did not say she did not befriend anyone. I stipulated "the way they befriended each other" meaning supposedly she never attended the out of work events that most of the other cast mates attended like the weekend outings at Whedon's house.

Also, as someone who never attends out of work events, myself I meant no judgment by the statement. I was probably unclear about that.