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In Buffy's Shadow
In the latest swedish magazine "Allt om DVD" a new interview with Sarah is featured, due to the premiere of The Grudge in Sweden. |
 She's played a nymfo in Cruel Intentions, a bimbo in Scooby Doo and victim in Scream 2. But it's as Buffy the Vampire Slayer we know Sarah Michelle Gellar. The question is if upcoming The Grudge can change that?
She's already made children horror (Scooby Doo), teenage horror (I know what you did last summer and Scream 2) and of course tv horror in Buffy. When Sarah Michelle Gellar now gets into japanese adult horror with the lead in The Grudge, you start to think if she's trying to become the 21 century's Jamie Lee Curtis.
- This gave me a chance to experience something different. This is the first time that a japanese movie is remade for an american audience, and uses the same director as the original. It's an honour in that, and alot of pressure to performe, Sarah Michelle Gellar says.
It's a pressure that probably didn't get easier with the knowledge that in later years she's been very close to being compaired to Buffy in whatever she does. And it's not just us that after seven seasons with vampire slaying on tv, that have a hard time watching Gellar as something else but the hard feminist fighter. Even Gellar herself has had problems letting go completely of her former part.
Liberating being a victim
- Sometimes it's hard not to act as Buffy. During the making of The Grudge (Takashi Shimizus Hollywood re-make off his own Ju-On) I had a scene where I was supposed to be escaping. I had to do re-take after re-take, and I thought I was screwing up somehow. It turned out that I was running too self-confident and professionally after all the actionscenes as Buffy. They wanted something more flapping and nervous, Gellar explains.
But even if the change was big, it was liberating for the once vampire hunter to play the pray instead of the hunter.
 - I think the most fun with these movies is that the most interesting characters always are made for women. I read alot of scripts, but this was the first part where the role that was offered wasn't just a heroine, but also had an interesting personality.
These factors, together with the fact that the shooting was placed in Tokyo made the decision easy for Gellar. After spending alot of long years at the same recording location for Buffy, she was in need of a change of scenery. She therefore accepted the role as the cute and innocent exchangestudent Karen immedietly. And the trip to a country who's language and culture she didn't know too much about, showed to be the perfect preperation for the role:
- I had two weeks off before we began shooting. I wandered around and tried to find different seeworthy locations and make myself understood. When I later were going to do the same thing during the shootings, it was easy to put myself in Karen's situation.
When director Shimizu's english abilities showed to be equal with Gellar's abilities in japanese, it ledd the languagebarrier to some problems. She jokes and says it was harder than usual to order lunch together. After a while they did manage to erase the barrier, and found some equal support that they could lean on.
- You find new ways to communicate after a while if you don't have the ability to use language. You learn to enterpret the other persons bodylanguage, nuances in the voice and alot of other things when you can't rely on words. It leeds in many ways to a closer and deeper connection.
Another difference that Gellar wasn't really prepared for was the hectic pace of work they used.
- I think that the next time I take a vacation I'm gonna go to Japan and create unions for film crews. The way the crew had to work was almost criminal. The work days had no end, and they don't get paid for overtime. The workethics is extremely hard.
 Death worse than vampire?
She did survive however this experience, and before she's transformed into Buffy, the employer slayer, she will appear in Richard Kelly's follow-up to Donnie Darko, Southland Tales. The movie is hidd behind alot of hush-hush, but as far as we know it will not be a horror movie. The only thing Gellar will reveal is that it again will be a colorfull role for her.
- I like environments where there's strong characters to sink your teeth into. I don't think I would be very good at playing the girlfriend or the housewife.
She probably won't have to either. And right now she has other problems. The big question is more what the legions of fans of the action-packed comic Buffy will think of the slow, menacing terror in The Grudge.
If you believe Gellar herself, it undeniably sounds like it's a remake to looks forward to. What we do have problems finding out however, is how believable Sarah Michelle will be as Karen. Because surely, the lady who made slaying vampires seem like a walk in the park be able to handle the dead without too much trouble?
Sarah Michelle Gellars big parts (the list on the third scan)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy Summers
One girl in all the world chosen to fight vampires, demons and the forces of darkness. Gellar's most known part? Without a doubt. Best quote? "If the apocalypse comes, beep me".
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Helen Shivers
Gellar plays a beautiful teenager who gets brutally hacked to pieces by a mad man with a hook. Alot of fleeing and paniced screams, as always in these kind of movies.
Scream 2
Cici Cooper
Gellar plays a beautiful teenager who is brutally thrown from a balcony by a mad man with a knife. This sequal wasn't board breaking, but it managed to include paniced screams in the end.
Cruel Intentions
Katryn Merteuil
Gellar plays a beautiful psycho who brutally manipulates a teenager to unhappiness and paniced screams. The movie are though most known for a kiss between Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair.
Scooby Doo
Daphne Blake
Gellar plays a beautiful teenager who's brutally made to appeare in a horrible script by a mad man with a typewriter. And another mad man with a typewriter made her appeare in the sequal.
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This interview was translated by Dana - exclusive to Slayerverse. DO NOT REPOST!
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