Sarah Michelle Gellar ’felt degraded’ After Sex Scenes

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UPDATED: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 13:25
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LIZ

Wednesday, July 7, 2004 4:10 PM

CC= Charisma Carpenter (or Cordelia Chase, strangely enough)

RITA

Monday, July 19, 2004 3:46 PM

What was up with CC i heard she was dissappointed about not returning to angel that it was not her descision to leave-at least that's what i read in T.V guide

GHOULMAN

Wednesday, July 21, 2004 3:51 PM

^^^ TV Guide is readable?

I didn't see that, but I found CCs pics in Playboy readable.

Really, they were SO sexy. Love the tats!

JK

Sunday, September 5, 2004 12:02 PM

Well, I dunno. I don't like to slate people if I don't know them (and even then I don't like to do it), but from all the stuff I've read and watched and heard about Buffy and SMG, I am getting the feeling that she is a little high maintenance. And that, certainly towards the end of Buffy, she was getting tired and dismissive of the series. Seems to me Buffy ended in large part due to the fact that Sarah stated she wasn't going to do any more, and I got the distinct impression that she just announced it to everyone and expected them to deal with it. No negotiation, no apology. Not a nice thing to do to people you've worked with for seven years.

But then, I might be wrong. But whatever, you can't argue that she's a bit full of herself.

By the way, what was Joss' comment about seven year television stars? I don't remember it.

JK

DIETCOKE

Sunday, September 5, 2004 2:28 PM

Well all I can say is that I thought year six was wonderful and really pushed the characters to a whole new level. I think everyone did their best acting job that year because the scripts demanded more from everyone. It was adult, intense, dark, and very, very moving. The cast should be thanking the writers for such an intense year of scripts that really allowed them to show off their talent.

JK

Monday, September 6, 2004 11:32 AM

Here here.

JK

DANFAN

Monday, September 6, 2004 4:24 PM

I respect your right to the opinions that you hold of season 6. Everyone's taste is unique to them.

As for myself, season 6 had the entirely opposite effect on me... it nearly stopped me from watching the last season. To me, the season felt forced and artificial. It seemed as if characters we had grown to love were being needlessly tortured... as if our attachment to those characters (nurtured for 5 years) was deliberately abused beyond the point needed to carry the story arc. And that's really what broke season 6 for me. I grasp that they wanted to show a difficult, awkward transition from childhood to adulthood. But I felt that they could have done it with less ugliness.

I understand the basics of drama. I don't look for sugar and sweetness in every episode that I watch. But neither do I consider an entire season of unrelenting depression and angst as entertainment. I wanted more variation in the diet...

Season 6 was too one-note. And that note was dissonant to me.

DIETCOKE

Monday, September 6, 2004 5:30 PM

Danfan, I know you are not alone in your feelings about season six. There are many others who hold the same view as you.

I was surprised that the writers would go to such dark places with the characters and yes, there were times, I just wanted to slap Buffy and tell her to grow up and take some responsibility.

But in the back of my mind, I knew the characters would somehow triumph over adversity and find the greatness inside themselves. The writers were taking us on a journey of peoples lives and sometime people loose their way for a while.

I guess that's why I like Joss' work so much. He really makes the audience FEEL, he takes us through the whole rainbow of human emotion. And that's what artists do, they get us out of our head and really make us feel our feelings.

I am always amazed at how Joss' work touches people in such very diffent ways. As Joss said about the characters of Firefly - it's about nine different characters seeing and experiencing the verse in very different ways.

And so we see things through our own perspective because it is the only way we can. What is great is that regardless of our perspective, we all agree that there is something very, very, special about Joss Whedon and we were the first to recognize his greatness.

Thanks for your perspective, Danfan.

SERENITYSRIVER

Saturday, September 18, 2004 4:48 AM

I agree with DanFan, but not completely. Sixth season had a negative effect on me. I have no problem with angst, but I felt the characters were being needlessly abused. Also, the fact that I was a large Spike fan (and a Spuffy hopeful) I was extremely angered seeing how horrible their relationship ended up being. I truly dislike Buffy as a character now. Seventh season healed some of the wounds concerning her character, but not all. She is probably one of my least favorites, that oppinion being egged on by her character's extreme abusiveness in seasons six and some of season seven.

One may argue that she never could love Spike, so the relationship was doomed to begin with. I disagree. Seeing how their relationship patched itself together and evolved toward the end of the show, I believe there could have been a healthy relationship there, if they had only tried. More correctly, if only Buffy hadn't been screwing him for kicks.

As for acting: I'm a method actress. I haven't had to do any intimately physical work, but I can't imagine it being that difficult to do, once one is on the professional level. And, if an actor is uncomfortable on a series, they should talk to the writers, talk to the director, let people know how you feel.

So, she felt degraded in those sex scenes with James? Well. . . . . I'll take her place anyday. . . . .

(And about being "too good for tv": I've never liked any of her movie work. I only really like her on the show, and that's only occasionally. She can act, but she's nothing too extremely unique, from what I've seen. That's only my opinion, of course.)

"Ten percent of nothin', well, let's see, that's nothin' add nothin', carry the nothin'. . . ."

SPACECOWGIRL

Wednesday, October 27, 2004 4:12 PM

I love the DVD commentary and would've liked Sarah to participate. Here's what Sarah has to say about it.

Sarah Michelle Gellar Defends Buffy DVDs
From Scifi.com - 2004-10-22nd

Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar told SCI FI Wire that time constraints, not a lack of interest, prevented her from providing commentaries on the acclaimed TV show’s DVD sets. "You know, it’s so interesting," she said during an interview while promoting her new film, The Grudge. "Most of the time in this business you really only get one side. You get he who speaks loudest."

The DVD sets of Buffy, which ended its seven-season run on The WB and UPN last year, have featured commentaries by cast and crew, but not the star. "In terms of the DVDs, they always did the commentaries during the show," Gellar said. "I was working constantly, three units. There was never time. It was unfortunate. It was a timing thing. If you tell a line producer, ’OK, we need Sarah for two hours on this day to do commentary,’ the line producer is going to tell you, ’Uh-uh.’ So that was why I didn’t do it during the show. And if I had free time, if for some reason I was getting a day off, I was taking it. I was exhausted." Season seven of Buffy comes out on DVD on Nov. 16. 2004

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