Buffy 20 Years on... Secrets Revealed!

From Feuds to Tantrums and Crushes, the Crew Spill All

While playing the title role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sarah Michelle Gellar kicked some serious butt on-screen – and, according to her colleagues, she was no pushover off-screen, either!

‘She looked at every actress as competition,’ series stunt coordinator Jeff Pruitt tells OK!, while executive producer and showrunner David Greenwalt raves the now 40-year-old ‘was a born pro’. ‘It was like driving a top-of-the-line Ferrari to direct her.’ But she knew it, Jeff remembers. ‘She told me the show only existed because she was a movie star,’ he explains. ‘I’m not going to pretend everything was perfect behind the scenes. Things got out of whack!’