Here’s what Sarah Michelle Gellar has to say about the Buffy reboot.

I could Sarah Michelle Gellar be ready to once again step into the role of the “chosen one” Buffy Summers, also known as “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”?

For years, talks to renew or reboot the popular 1996 TV series – and its controversial but beloved 1992 counterpart – have been at an impasse.

However, in an era where reboots of Sex and the City , Will & Grace and even Frasier are rampant, Gellar, 47, is now adding her voice to the mix.

Stopping by The Drew Barrymore Show to promote the upcoming Dexter prequel, Dexter: Original Sin, Gellar was asked if Gellar would open up joining the new series to a potential Buffy reboot or revival in the future.

Acknowledging Barrymore’s query as one she’s heard time and time again, Gellar offered a thoughtful response.

“It’s funny (because) I’ve always said no,” she began, “because it’s in a bubble and it’s so perfect (as it is).”

Then, noting the popularity of the Sex and the City spin-off, … And Just Like That and the Dexter prequel, she said: “There are ways to do it (though). It makes you think.”

Gellar’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer ran for seven seasons, airing its swan song in 2003 on the defunct UPN (Seasons 1-4 aired on the WB).

She appeared in all 144 episodes and was an occasional character in several episodes of Angel, a spin-off series starring David Boreanaz.

Actor Christian Slater, who plays a younger version of Dexter’s father Harry Morgan in the Original Sin prequel, appeared with Gellar on Barrymore’s show to help promote the new series.

Gellar, who plays CSI chief Tanya Martin, a new character in the Dexter franchise, couldn’t help but point out the funny way Slater weaves into the Buffy mythos via a line from the original 1992 film (played by actress Christie Swanson), as Page six notes.

“Famous line: ‘All I want to do is finish high school, go to Europe, marry Christian Slater and die!’

With a laugh, Slater noted, “(But) we’re going on, which is nice.”

Starting in 2021, several Buffy and Angel actors have bravely shared their accounts of working on both series under franchise creator Joss Whedon.

Many of them; in particular, co-stars Charisma Carpenter and Michelle Trachtenberg have alleged less-than-ideal working conditions, including verbal abuse by Whedon.

Gellar would share some of her impressions with The Hollywood Reporter in 2023, but chose not to delve into what might have happened.

“With that, I’ve come to a good place where it’s easier to talk,” she told the publication, without naming Whedon. “I’ll never tell my story in full because I won’t get anything out of it.”

“I said everything I was going to say because nobody wins,” she suggested. “Everybody loses.”

Still, she hoped that Whedon’s alleged actions, and the backlash that rightfully resulted from them, would not tarnish the show’s overall legacy.

“I’ll always be proud of (what we did on) ‘Buffy,'” Gellar said. “I will always be proud of what my comrades did, what I did.”

​While she may have turned the page on her Buffy the Vampire Slayer role, Gellar had to clarify earlier this year that she would not be appearing in the upcoming reboot of I Know You did last summer.”

After accidentally posting a picture of her visiting the set of an upcoming film a few weeks ago — something she shouldn’t have done (“I got into a little trouble (for that),” she recently told another publication) — fans began to speculate that Gellar will also return as Helen Shivers, her character from the first film.

The only problem is that Helen is no longer with us.

“I’m dead,” Gellar reminded her fans of Helen’s sad fate.

“My best friend (Jennifer Caityn Robinson) is a director,” she continued, “so we joke that I have an unofficial job, so I’m still working,” she explains. – So I always say to her, “Well, it would have happened or it wouldn’t have happened with these characters.”

The first episode of Dexter: Original Sin is now available to stream on Paramount+.