Sarah Michelle Gellar

She IS Sarah Michelle Gellar!

She was great in Cruel Intentions but never really cared for her in anything else.

What a pleasant person

She frightens me

She called out “saint” Susan Lucci as a bitch when she was quite young. I remember thinking “Who is this girl?” as it was the first time I’d ever heard of her.

SMG on The Rosie O'Donnell Show

She seems very likable.

Cunt

She's a nasty little creature. No one can like her!

SMG on Conan O'Brien in the year 2000

she is the princess of the late 1990's teens

[quote] Conan O'Brien in the year 2000

I read an interview years ago (I think just after Buffy finished) and she was asked about why most of the photos printed of her were the official ones, i.e. no paparazzi candid style pics and she said she didn't go out much to clubs etc because she was a smoker and didn't want the kids watching the show to see Buffy Summers smoking.

I always thought that was a really nice way to respect and appreciate both the audience and the character.

My friend worked on Ringer, and she did not have flattering things to say about SMG.

Shirley Temple was the same way R13. A lifelong smoker who wouldn’t smoke in public because she didn’t want to set a bad example for fans.

Ultimately her career suffered because Gellar didn't play the media games. She worked, she went home. Hollywood doesn't appreciate women who don't earn the industry extra money during their off-hours by having public tantrums and drinking problems.

Fun fact: SMG was cast as Jenny Everdeane in Scorsese’s “Gangs of New York”, which probably would have significantly raised her profile (especially if she did well, since Cameron Diaz’s performance is one of the weak spots people always talk about with that film), but she pulled out due to a conflict with Buffy. After that missed opportunity, she never really got her big breakout “serious” role. That was in 2002, and since then she's done some light romcoms, some horror, the Scooby Doo movies, and some other small stuff, but nothing with that kind of buzz. She had another shot with The Crazy Ones (primetime network single cam comedy with Robin Williams) if that had broken big, but it didn’t, and unfortunately even if it had, with Williams getting sick it probably would have ended up the same. Her and FPJ both seem to get steady work, though, which honestly is a decent gig. They have kind of the same thing that Kristen Bell/Dax Shepard have, though the latter seems to have broken out more in recent years.

She's never been a good actress. Buffy might be good for a teenager's show, but that doesn't mean squat.

Cruel Intentions was one of those movies that was awesome as a teenager when the wind could make me hard but terrible on rewatch. I think half the appeal, for me, was that character being completely different than anything else I'd seen her in and my love of cruel bitches.

She's perfect for all those Scooby Doo movies, though.

She's no Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Lucci all but tortured her on AMC. She HATED having a daughter her age on the show, even though in real life she had a daughter older. Once she started getting press it made Lucci ten times worse. When Gellar won the emmy in 1995 it pretty much cemented the hate.

R14 tell us more.

r20 did Lucci think her "daughter" should have been younger?

R22 Lucci has always been 40 and her daughter has always been 12

The problem was the story was Kendal was born out of 15-year-old Erica being raped which happened before the show started in 1970 when Erica was supposed to be 15, which put her birth year at 1955. Kendal was supposed to be 16 when she came on the show but fans complained that would mean Erica was 31 in 1993 which I am sure Lucci would have loved but no one believed she was 31. They changed Kendall's age to 23 which put the age more in line with the start date of 1970. That put 44-year-old Lucci playing 38 year old Erica. The problem for Lucci was it put focus on her age and she was not happy about it. She took that out on Gellar.

I watched her on a teen soap, Swans Crossing. She played Sydney Rutledge. I insisted on wearing buff beige maybelline foundation because that’s what she wore in the late 90s, early 00s ads. I liked her hair too but I could never pull that off.

She's too nice for Hollywood

Lucci is estranged from her daughter. I wonder what that's all about.

Liza, her daughter has not spoken to her father or mother (father is now dead) in over 10 years.