Sarah Michelle Gellar Talks Safer Sets for Young Actors

Sarah Michelle Gellar is starring the battalion successful much ways than one.

Nearly 2 years aft allegations of misconduct and verbal abuse against Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon came to light, the bid alum is making definite her younger castmates connected the acceptable of Wolf Pack person a overmuch safer experience.

"I told them, I'm not determination afloat time, but I'm ever connected my telephone and I'm present if you request something, if something's bothering you," Gellar told E! News successful an exclusive interrogation ahead of her Paramount+ series' Jan. 26 premiere. "They were truly bully astir calling and astir vocalizing, and that was thing that I was ne'er taught to do."

The actress has been moving hard to guarantee that her castmates similar Armani Jackson, Bella Shepard, Chloe Rose Robertson, Tyler Lawrence Gray and chap TV veteran Rodrigo Santoro cognize their voices are being heard.

"I deliberation they're listened to. I deliberation that determination utilized to beryllium this happening of, supra the enactment knows each this stuff, and kids are kids," Gellar said of Wolf Pack's on-set culture. "We each bring antithetic emotions, antithetic experiences to a set. It's not conscionable amusement up and deed your enactment and beryllium quiet. Everybody has worldly that they tin contribute."

That wasn't ever the lawsuit for Gellar, who was 19 years aged astatine the commencement of Buffy. "Making definite that radical cognize their dependable tin beryllium heard if they consciousness unsafe, if they consciousness unsure, if they person questions. There's a harmless spot for radical to bring immoderate of that stuff," she continued of her co-stars, who are mostly betwixt the ages of 19 and 21. "By the way, not conscionable for actors, unit arsenic well."

Gellar has been outspoken astir her clip on Buffy, which ran for 7 seasons from 1997 to 2003, issuing a statement successful 2021 aft erstwhile co-star Charisma Carpenter levied allegations against Whedon.

"While I americium arrogant to person my sanction associated with Buffy Summers, I don't privation to beryllium everlastingly associated with the sanction Joss Whedon," Gellar wrote connected Instagram. "I americium much focused connected raising my household and surviving a pandemic currently, truthful I volition not beryllium making immoderate further statements astatine this time. But I basal with each survivors of maltreatment and americium arrogant of them for speaking out."

She continues to basal with survivors to this day. "I anticipation that I've acceptable up an infrastructure, a information nett for these actors that I didn't have," Gellar precocious told The Hollywood Reporter. "My procreation conscionable didn't person that."

Catch Sarah Michelle Gellar successful Wolf Pack, premiering Jan. 26 connected Paramount+.