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  • 6/24/2025
Sarah Michelle Gellar says she wants to bring back everyone who died in the original 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' series for the reboot. The actress, who led the original series for seven seasons from 1997 to 2003, is reprising her role as Buffy Summers in the new Hulu series. Actress Ryan Kiera Armstrong of 'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' has also been cast in the reboot as a new young Slayer.

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00:00Sarah Michelle Gellar says she wants to bring back everyone who died in the original Buffy
00:04the Vampire Slayer series for the reboot. The actress who led the original show for
00:09seven seasons from 1997 to 2003 is reprising her role as Buffy Summers in the new Hulu series.
00:15Actress Ryan Kiara Armstrong of Star Wars Skeleton Crew has also been cast in the
00:20reboot as a new young slayer. During a recent interview with Vanity Fair Italia,
00:24Gellar said this about the forthcoming series,
00:26it will be lighter than the last few seasons of the original. We will try to find a balance between
00:31new and old characters. My dream is to bring back everyone who has died, but space will have to be
00:36made for new stories as well. The Dexter original Sin star also shared that she wants to make sure
00:41the reboot includes modern themes, issues, and storylines. She said, we're trying to figure out
00:46how to modernize the themes of the series, especially what it means to feel like an
00:50outsider in a world dominated by social media. What we want to explore are the space-time
00:54boundaries that affect society today. Most details surrounding the reboot, which Hulu is referring
00:59to as the untitled Buffyverse pilot, are being kept under wraps. Gellar is also executive producing
01:05the series. For more on this story and all the latest news, go to THR.com. This is the Hollywood Reporter News.

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