I still get a kick out of slaying Monsters

Sarah Michelle Gellar is delighted fans think she can still tear it up after taking screens by storm in 90s and excitement at her new series Wolf Pack

- RICK FULTON

BUFFY star Sarah Michelle Gellar has swapped vampires for werewolves and revealed: “If people think that I can still save the world and kick butt, I’m OK with that.”

Twenty years after Buffy the Vampire Slayer finished, mother-of-two Sarah, 45, is back following a nine-year career break in a supernatural TV series Wolf Pack, which streams on Paramount +.

Running from 1997 to 2003, Buffy was a phenomenon – not only did it make a young female the lead rather than the love interest or support to the main man, it introduced a musical episode and even inspired Russell T Davies to revive Doctor Who in 2005.

Sarah said: “I have always been proud of the show and I still am. I’ve watched it with my kids. They love it and I’m proud of its legacy. I was really fortunate to get Buffy. She changed my life. A lot of times when you start a show at a young age you get stuck but I didn’t have that.

“Buffy grew. She went to college and then essentially she became a mother. She was a mother to all the slayers.

“I never felt like I was trapped because I got to do so much. And then I got to play all these other characters.

“How many times in any actor’s life do you get to be a part of something that has a legacy like Buffy? And if people think that I can still save the world and kick butt, I’m OK with that!”

Sarah, who has been acting since she was five, was 17 when she shot the pilot for Buffy.