Buffy Stars’ Kids Audition for Revival, Sarah Michelle Gellar Confirms

Casting for the approaching Buffy the Vampire Slayer revival simply began, with Ryan Kiera Armstrong solid as the brand new youngster lead. Sarah Michelle Gellar added to the suspense, after she completely advised Us Weekly there are a couple of acquainted names at the audition roster.

In Gellar and previous Buffy costar Alyson Hannigan‘s joint interview with Us Weekly to promote GSK’s Ask2BeSure marketing campaign, Hannigan (who performed Willow on all seven seasons of the unique collection) excitedly printed, “I know somebody who auditioned for something on the show.”

Gellar, who performed the titular vampire slayer from 1997 to 2003, gave Us an excellent juicier tease: “I know somebody who was on the show whose child auditioned on the show. I know a few people from the show whose children came in.”

The revelation surprised Hannigan, 51, who instantly questioned if she knew any youngsters checking out for the Buffy reboot, which doesn’t but have a premiere date. “It better not have been one of my kids!” Hannigan mentioned with amusing.

The How I Met Your Mother alum stocks daughters Satyana, 16, and Keeva, 12, with husband Alexis Denisof, whom she met at the set of Buffy season 3. “Somebody had a crush, and she fell hard,” Gellar, 48, recalled.

Hannigan added, “Oh yeah, and he wouldn’t date me, by the way!”

Denisof, who performed Wesley, first of all had issues about being romantically concerned with a coworker — and he wasn’t the one person who idea their dating can be a foul thought. Anthony Stewart Head, who performed Giles, gave an identical recommendation.

“I remember Anthony Stewart Head saying — because at this point Alexis was on [the spinoff] Angel — and so it was so obvious that we needed to decide whether or not this was going to be something,” Hannigan mentioned. “So I went to Tony and I was like, ‘Should we go on a date?’ He’s like, ‘Absolutely not. It will ruin your friendship. You guys are too good. Do not date him.’ So on the big anniversaries, I’m like, ‘Hey Tony, thanks for the advice.’”

Denisof and Hannigan married in 2003, however Gellar wasn’t too shocked.

“Do you know this has happened to me numerous times?” Gellar shared with Us. “Because there was also another girl that had a similar, very hard crush on someone that I watched. It was Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos. And I watched Kelly the day that she met Mark, and she came running and she’s like, ‘there is the hottest guy.’ And he was like, ‘No, not where I work.’ So, usually, I know how that ends.”

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Meanwhile, Gellar married Freddie Prinze Jr. in 2002, and so they percentage youngsters Charlotte, 15, and Rocky, 12. It’s now not simple to stick buddies for almost 30 years, however the actresses say working out is helping.

“Moms understand that friendship doesn’t mean I have to call you every single day,” Gellar defined. “There’s never a crisis time in my life that there isn’t a text from Alyson. I don’t mean that in a bad way. That’s how you maintain a friendship: by knowing the things that [matter]. We don’t miss birthdays. We don’t miss the big ones. Those moments, that’s why a friendship lasts a long period of time. It’s not about being able to make the time every day or once a week to do an exercise class. It’s about when you’re on Dancing with the Stars, I couldn’t be there in person. I want to be there emotionally, texting you after every episode, making sure people vote.”

And in the event that they do leave out a birthday? “It doesn’t lessen what we’ve had — a lifetime of experience together,” Hannigan added.

Their newest revel in is making an attempt to organize their youngsters to take price in their well being and pay attention to meningitis.

“Sarah and I are very happy to be partnered up with GSK to raise an awareness for Ask2BSure, which is a health campaign to bring awareness to the meningococcal disease, which is also known as meningitis, which is an uncommon but very serious illness that can have some very life-altering complications, including death even, and sometimes as fast as within 24 hours,” Hannigan mentioned.“So Ask2BeSure encourages parents to go to their kids’ doctors and to ask about meningitis vaccination, because there’s just so much that you’re balancing as a parent and things can slip through the cracks.”

The Ask2BSure marketing campaign raises consciousness for folks and teenagers to grasp what questions to invite. “Our kids are teenagers and this is that transitional period where we’re really trying to teach them to advocate for their health,” Gellar mentioned, noting other folks from ages 16 to 23 are at greater possibility for meningitis.

Gellar persisted, “What I really loved about the website was it wasn’t about fear mongering, it was about answering questions about this very serious illness. And I don’t think I was aware of the statistics that one in 10 people who get it will die or probably will die. Or that one in five who survive can have life-altering complications, like loss of limb [or] brain damage.”

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The marketing campaign encourages schooling and asking questions — a lesson Gellar famous most oldsters are looking to train their youngsters.

“I think at the end of the day, that’s a lesson that’s important — not just in this small instance. That is a really important life lesson,” she mentioned. “If you don’t know, ask the questions, and you can’t know to ask the questions unless someone prompts you: ‘Hey, this is important. This is the question to ask.’”

They emphasised modeling that habits. “It’s also really easy [to show kids] when you ask your doctor, because she’s going to explain it way better than I can to them,” Hannigan mentioned. “So they’re in the room with me when I brought it up. And the professionals know what they’re doing.”

For additional info at the marketing campaign and the 5 vaccine-preventable teams of meningitis, take a look at Ask2BSure.com.