Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Sarah Michelle Gellar revealed that, at one time, she apparently “had a reputation of being … difficult.” The “Buffy” star went on to say:
“Anyone that knows me knows it came from the fact that I always put in 100 percent. I never understood people who don’t. I’ve mellowed a bit in [my expectations of others] — I think because I got burned out.”
Considering the cast’s experience on “Buffy” has been revealed as pretty nightmarish in the years since 2003 when the show ended, it seems likely that this view of Gellar being difficult really is unfair. Especially when you factor in the comments of her co-star, Seth Green, who played Oz on the show and had been a friend of Gellar’s since they were child actors. Green told E! News:
“She gets a bad wrap sometimes because she’s assertive, and I think that’s unfair. Because she stands up for herself, she stands up for the crew, and she stands up for the integrity of the show, the character, things that we all discussed that we would have like to see done that someone said, ‘We can’t do that.’ She stood up for that and she got labeled difficult, which is a sad label for someone like her.”
On top of that, Green also took time to defend his friend to The Hollywood Reporter, saying:
“I saw her get called a b***h, a diva, all these things that she’s not — just because she was taking the mantle of saying and doing the right thing.”
