Gellar to give up Buffy
Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar plans to give up Buffy The Vampire Slayer following the success of her latest movie Scooby-Doo.
The 25-year-old star has played high-kicking lead character Buffy Summers for the past five years since the hit TV show began.
But she now sees her future on the big screen following the box-office success of Scooby-Doo, in which she played Daphne Blake.
She says: ‘‘It’s important for me to go out on top. I don’t want to be part of a show that runs eight years only to have people say of it, ‘That should have ended years ago’.’’
The producers of the show are now working on ways to continue the series, which will otherwise end after its seventh run.
The most likely possibility would see Buffy’s role taken by her teenage sister Dawn, played by Michelle Trachtenberg.
There is also a chance that Gellar may be persuaded to make regular cameos.
Gellar has been forced to miss out on a string of top movie roles due to the time-consuming constraints of the Buffy schedule and has also complained about the toll the show’s stunts take on her body.
She has already signed up for the sequel to Scooby-Doo, which begins shooting in 2004.
