For each era, there’s a Slayer star’s child making an attempt to interrupt into Hollywood.
After revealing Ryan Kiera Armstrong because the star of the upcoming Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, Sarah Michelle Gellar lately teased that a number of youngsters of her co-stars from the unique WB/UPN sequence “got here in” to audition for the revival as she reunited with castmate Alyson Hannigan.
“I do know any person who auditioned for one thing on the present,” mentioned Hannigan of their interview for Us Weekly, to which Gellar responded, “I do know any person who was on the present whose youngster auditioned on the present. I do know a number of folks from the present whose youngsters got here in.”
Hannigan joked, “It higher not have been one among my children!”
Deadline solely revealed this week that Armstrong will play the brand new Slayer within the untitled Buffyverse challenge, which Gellar govt produces along with reprising her titular position as Buffy Summers. The brand new character is described in casting supplies as an introverted high-school pupil.
Anthony Stewart Head, Charisma Carpenter, Nicholas Brendan, Alyson Hannigan and Sarah Michelle Gellar in ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ (1997-2003) (twentieth Century Fox Movie Corp.)
“From the second I noticed Ryan’s audition, I knew there was just one woman that I needed by my facet,” mentioned Gellar in a press release. “To have that type of emotional intelligence, and expertise, at such a younger age is actually a present. The bonus is that her smile lights up even the darkest room
In February, Deadline reported that the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot has neared a pilot order from Hulu, with Chloé Zhao directing the pilot, written by Nora and Lilla Zuckerman.
Together with producers Gellar, Zhao and the Zuckermans, Dolly Parton is returning as an govt producer on the sequence after producing the unique beneath her Sandollar banner.
Buffy creator Joss Whedon, who additionally wrote the 1992 film the sequence was primarily based on, has no involvement within the reboot. He has not labored in Hollywood in any official capability since going through a slew of misconduct allegations in 2021.
