Buffy The Vampire Slayer Cast Reunites For 20th Anniversary

Buffy the Vampire Slayer turned 20 years old in March and the cast of the cult favorite television [...]

By Jamie Lovett

Buffy the Vampire Slayer turned 20 years old in March and the cast of the cult favorite television series gathered to celebrate.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was created by Joss Whedon and starred Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers, the Slayer, the one girl and all the world who can stand against the vampires, the demons, and everything else that lurks in the darkness.

The show's supporting cast included David Boreanaz, Alysson Hannigan, Nicholas Brendon, Charisma Carpenter, Kristine Sutherland, Seth Green, James Marsters, Emma Caulfield, Amber Benson, Alexis Denisof, and Michelle Trachtenberg, who all came together again for an interview and photo event staged by Entertainment Weekly.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer began as a show that used horror elements to represent the real terrors of life in high school. "It's the ultimate metaphor: horrors of adolescence manifesting through these actual monsters," says Gellar. "It's the hardest time of life."

"When you're going through a really horrible part of your life, like your teenage years, you feel alone. And Buffy was a way to tell the audience you're not alone," added Boreanaz.

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"It just touched on really basic human emotions, like a life blueprint. 'I don't have any friends. I feel isolated.' Those sort of core human emotions," said Caulfield.

The cast took part in a reunion photo shoot and you can see the result in the gallery below (via EW).

"This is surreal," says Whedon. "For the most part, this is like a high school reunion but much worse because they all still look really great. I was hoping some of them would puff out a bit. But that did not take place."

Reflecting on her time playing Willow Rosenberg, Hannigan says, ""It was the role of a lifetime," which is particularly true in her case since she married co-star Alexis Denisof. "I met the love of my life. And just to get to go to work every day and have Joss sort of train me — I'll never have a better experience than that."

"I'm so incredibly proud of what we all created," Gellar says. Sometimes you need distance to really understand the gravitas of that. I appreciate everything about that job. As an actor, all you ever want to do is leave your mark — you want to do something that affects people."

"The most important thing to me is that I have had people come up to me and say the show made me feel different about what they could be, about what they could do, about how they respond to problems, about being a female leader," says Whedon. "People getting strength from my own little terrors is… There is no better legacy than that."

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