Sarah Michelle Gellar has reunited with her former Buffy the Vampire Slayer co-star, Alyson Hannigan, to spotlight an important cause!
E! News reported that Gellar andHannigan appeared together on the May 9 episode of The TODAY show to discuss the importance of protecting children from meningitis. Gellar has two children, Charlotte and Rocky, fathered by her husband, Freddie Prinze Jr. Hannigan and her husband, fellow Buffy star Alexis Denisof, are also parents to two children, Satyana and Keeva.
During the TODAY show episode, Gellar said that Hannigan helped her learn about the infection.
“As a new parent, there’s so much information and you try to keep track. I think sometimes you’re intimidated. We all know that knowledge is power, but sometimes it’s hard to ask the questions. To be honest, I learned a lot about this from Alyson,” said Gellar in the interview.
Hannigan then interjected that she usually gets her information from Gellar.
“Which is so rare because she’s usually the one I go to. Like, she knows everything. I’m like ‘Can you just do my life?'” quipped Hannigan on the TODAY show episode.
Gellar and Hannigan confirmed that they are paid spokespeople for GSK during the May 9 interview.
While Gellar and Hannigan appear close now, the pair weren’t always on the best of terms. E! News reported that Gellar spoke about her dynamic with Hannigan during their time on Buffy the Vampire Slayerin a 2022 interview with Evan Ross Katz, the author of Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts.
“Look, we worked really hard hours. We were young, we had ups and downs. Everybody had arguments. It wasn’t rosy. Nobody gets along all the time. Alyson and I had moments. There’s no question. But you’re young,” said Gellar during the 2022 interview. “I think that unfortunately, the set we were on and the world we were in was pitting us against each other. I think it would have been different if it was today.”
According to Us Weekly, Hannigan spoke about Gellar’s exhaustion on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer set in a 2013 interview on Watch What Happens Live, hosted by Andy Cohen. When Cohen asked her, “Who was the most annoyed to be on Buffy the Vampire Slayer by the end of the show’s run,” she replied, “Sarah.”
“Well, she had a big career going. It was a lot of work,” said Hannigan in the WWHL interview.
Hannigan clarified her WWHL comments in a May 2013 HuffPost Live interview. She said she would have never described Gellar as being “annoyed” on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer set and assured that she “was super professional.”
“She worked her butt off. Obviously, she was Buffy. She worked 18-hour days for years. [Cohen] was playing a game or something. It was a leading question, like ‘Who was the most annoyed?’ Obviously, I wouldn’t have used the word annoyed. But she was the most tired because she worked the hardest,” said Hannigan.
During the TODAY Show interview, Gellar said her children have watched and enjoyed Buffy the Vampire Slayer. However, Hannigan’s children had not yet watched the series, which ended in 2003. In a February 2021 interview with TooFab, Hannigan explained she hasn’t let her kids watch the show because of its horror aspects.
“We’re really cautious about what they watch. I get nervous,” said Hannigan.
