Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar has admitted she has had some disagreeable experiences in her profession.
In an interview with The New York Instances, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer star recalled her early days in Hollywood, saying it was “not straightforward”. Nevertheless, the 45-year-old actress stopped wanting sharing extra particulars.
“Rising up in New York, I had a little bit little bit of avenue sense going into it, which is useful,” she shared. “However no, it was not straightforward. And I’ve had my fair proportion of experiences, I’ve simply chosen not [to tell them] – I do not win by telling my tales, emotionally, for me.”
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“I take a look at those that inform their tales, and I am so impressed,” she mentioned. “However on this world the place individuals get torn aside, and sufferer blaming and shaming, I simply hold my tales in right here.”
Gellar received her begin within the business on the younger age of 4, earlier than occurring the star within the hit teen motion pictures Merciless Intentions and I Know What You Did Final Summer time. Nevertheless it was her starring position on the teenager collection Buffy that is still her most iconic position so far.
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The actress performed the titular position of Buffy Summers within the collection from 1997 to 2003, and it appears it hasn’t all the time been harmonious on the set of the Joss Whedon collection. In 2020, 17 years after the collection wrapped, co-star Charisma Carpenter got here ahead with allegations of abuse in opposition to Whedon.
In a prolonged assertion, Carpenter – who performed Cordelia Chase – claimed in a prolonged twitter assertion that Whedon exhibited “casually merciless” behaviour, together with threatening to fireplace her, calling her “fats” when she was 4 months pregnant, asking her if she was going to “hold” her child. Whedon has denied all of the allegations.
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As Carpenter’s claims made headlines, Gellar launched her personal assertion in help of her co-star.
“Whereas I’m proud to have my identify related to Buffy Summers, I do not need to be endlessly related to the identify Joss Whedon,” Gellar wrote in a press release posted to Instagram on the time.
She mentioned she wouldn’t be making any additional statements on the matter, since she is “extra centered on elevating my household”. However she added, “I stand with all survivors of abuse and am pleased with them for talking out.”
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