Sarah Michelle Gellar recently appeared on the Shut Up Evan podcast. Very fun interview with them covering a bunch of topics. The one getting the most headlines was her talking about the Buffy project. When asked about if this is a sequel or reboot, she said “It’s not a sequel, it’s not a reboot. It’s a continuation. I think so because where is she now in this world and what is this world that Buffy lives in with her and without her? You know, kind of exploration. So it’s not a reboot, It’s not picking up with all of the same characters right away. 
It is not like a sequel read, but I just think it’s Sunnydale. That”s why the name was even important to me. You know, and Buffy knew Sunnydale. 
Like, it’s Buffy, but it’s also something else. I always said I would never do it. And I have learned a very hard lesson in life. There’s a reason why that saying is never say never, so I will eat my words and I’m okay with that. 
I learned my lesson. That’s totally fair. I never saw how to do it. 
I never saw how and why it could be as good. I’m not trying to be better. I just want it to hold up. 
I want to hold and honor the memory and what we created. And I know sometimes that memory is conflicted for people about how they’re supposed to feel about it but a lot of people put their blood, sweat into tears into making what I think is an incredibly great show and I’m incredibly proud of it. But Chloe Zhao came to me and not just her passion because I’ve seen people with passion before but she knew how to go into the world, she knew what the world was and she knew the why. And that was the first time I said, “Maybe, could I possibly do this?” And this went on for three years now, probably of me and Chloe going back and forth saying I could do it and saying I can’t. 
And really spending the time to develop what it is and why it is. We’re still working on that. Why and how. 
And I know we live in a society where we binge it, we want it now and I know this seems like it’s taking a long time and it’s because unless we are sure that it is exactly what we set out to do and that it makes sense to do it, we don’t want to sully the legacy by not. So when I know it’s perfect, then then it will be out there but I won’t do it unless I know it can be that if that makes sense.”
You can watch the interview at this link. I loved the interview.
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