Sarah Michelle Gellar admits she “never thought” she’d play Buffy again.

She played the titular role in the hit television series “ Buffy the Vampire Slayer ” for seven seasons before the show ended in 2003.

“It was not a place that I ever saw myself, so it definitely felt very surreal,” Gellar told me Tuesday night at the Neiman Marcus Celebrates 2025 Fantasy Gifts party at Bar Marmont in Los Angeles. “But this is why you never say never, and I’m sure I said ‘never’ many times and I’ve learned my lesson because I’m sure someday you’re gonna go back and find all the times I said, ‘No, never. I’m too old. It’ll be Buffy with a walker.’”

Officially titled “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale,” the Hulu reboot recently wrapped its pilot episode . Ryan Kiera Armstrong stars as a

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