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Sarah Michelle Gellaris here for the much-talked-aboutBuffy the Vampire Slayerreboot.
The upcoming Joss Whedon-produced show was firstconfirmedin July with a black actress in the starring role of Buffy Summers, which Gellar made famous for seven seasons until 2003.
“At the end of the day, it’s all about great storytelling,” Gellar, 41, tells PEOPLE. “If a story lives on, then I think it should be told in any incarnation it can be told in.”
And Gellar agrees with Boreanaz, telling PEOPLE: “I’m with David.”
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The fan backlash was so strong it previously prompted the reboot’s showrunner Monica Owusu-Breen to release a statement assuring the Buffyverse that “there is only one Buffy.”
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In July, Owusu-Breentweeted: “They can’t be replaced. Joss Whedon’s brilliant and beautiful series can’t be replicated. I wouldn’t try to. But here we are, twenty years later… and the world seems a lot scarier. So maybe, it could be time to meet a new Slayer.”
Last March, Gellar and Boreanaz reunited with Whedon, Emma Caulfield, Amber Benson,Alyson Hannigan, James Marsters,Seth Green, Charisma Carpenter,Michelle Trachtenberg, Kristine Sutherland, Alexis Denisof and Nicholas Brendon in celebration ofBuffy the Vampire Slayerturning 20 years old.
“I’m so incredibly proud of what we all created. Sometimes you need distance to really understand the gravitas of that,” Gellar toldEntertainment Weekly, who organized the get-together. “I appreciate everything about that job. As an actor, all you ever want to do is leave your mark — you want to do something that affects people.”
source: people.com
