Sarah Michelle Gellar is reuniting with a recent co-star on the hotly-anticipated Buffy reboot.
The protagonist of the beloved vampire slayer series is reprising the role of Buffy Summers in Hulu’s reboot pilot directed by Eternals’ Chloé Zhao.
Joining Gellar and new Slayer Nova, played by Ryan Kiera Armstrong, is I Know What You Did Last Summer star Chase Sui Wonders in a supporting role.
Wonders, who also stars on AppleTV+’s acclaimed The Studio, and Gellar met while filming the legacy sequel of I Know What You Did Last Summer, which saw Gellar briefly return as Helen Shivers in a dream sequence.
“That’s right, I got my bestie to come play with me,” Gellar confirmed in her Instagram Stories.
As for Wonders, she said Gellar is “just such a force to be reckoned with” (via Deadline).
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“We became fast friends on I Know What You Did last Summer. She’s an incredible woman and just a cool person, and she asked me if I wanted to do it.
“Then she told me about Chloé Zhao directing and [Nora and Lilla Zuckerman] showrunning. And then Eric Kissack, who is actually our editor on The Studio, is also editing the Buffy series.”
Details of Wonders’ role on the Buffy reboot are being kept under wraps, but it’s been revealed her character’s name is Shirley.
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The pilot is currently filming in Los Angeles, with Gellar starring and acting as a consultant for all things Buffy.
“What I can say is that it’s a very fun way to enter this series,” Wonders said of her role, “and [Gellar] is on set every day, from as soon as we start to when we wrap. She’s very hands on.”
Also starring in the reboot are Severance’s Sarah Bock as well as Faly Rakotohavana (Secret Society of Second-Born Royals), Ava Jean (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), Daniel di Tomasso (Witches of East End), and Jack Cutmore-Scott (Frasier).
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot is yet to receive a release date.
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