has blamed the cancellation of the highly anticipated on an executive who was 'proud' to tell her that he had never seen the original series.
The actress, 48, who starred as Buffy Summers in all seven seasons of the hit show from 1997 to 2003, spoke about the shocking axing of the reboot by Hulu in a new interview with People.
'We had an executive on our show who was not only not a fan of the original, but was proud to constantly remind us that he had never seen the entirety of the series and how it wasn't for him,' she said.
'That's very hard when you're taking a property that is as beloved as Buffy, not just to the world, but to me and Chloe,' she added, speaking of the reboot's director Chloe Zhao.
'So that tells you the uphill battle that we had been fighting since day one, when your executive is literally proud to tell you that he didn't watch it,' Gellar went on.
'But the fans, they were the only reason we were doing this show in the first place' she went on, adding, 'We were doing it because everybody loves it. So how do you do a show that's beloved with someone that doesn't love it?'
Sarah Michelle Gellar, 48, said that the reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was cancelled due to a Hulu executive who was 'proud' to have never seen the original show; She is pictured on March 16 in New York
The actress, who starred as Buffy Summers in all seven seasons of the hit show from 1997 to 2003, spoke about the shocking axing in a new interview with People; Seen in a 1998 still
Gellar did not name the Hulu executive.
The actress told the outlet that she got the call with the shocking news right before she was about to take the stage at the SXSW Film & TV Festival to debut Ready or Not 2: Here I Come on March 11.
'We had an executive on our show who was not only not a fan of the original, but was proud to constantly remind us that he had never seen the entirety of the series and how it wasn't for him,' she said; Seen March 13 in Austin, Texas
'We were doing it because everybody loves it. So how do you do a show that's beloved with someone that doesn't love it?' she asked, adding that 'nobody saw this coming'; Seen in 2025
Gellar and director Chloe Zhao (seen in an Instagram snap) had already filmed a pilot for the series reboot
The revival would have seen the veteran vampire hunter pass the torch to a new generation, with Ryan Kiera Armstrong, 16, cast as a fresh slayer alongside Gellar's Buffy. Gellar said she was 'gutted that no one will see [Armstrong] as a slayer'; Armstrong seen in 2024
Gellar said that she has spoken to Zhao and that they are both 'feeling the same things. Disappointment.'
