Buffy The Vampire Slayer Reunion Behind-The-Scenes Photos

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

Creator Joss Whedon and actors Sarah Michelle Gellar, David Boreanaz, Alysson Hannigan, Nicholas Brendon, Kristine Sutherland, Michelle Trachtenberg, Charisma Carpenter, Seth Green, Amber Benson, Alexis Denisof, and Emma Caulfield all came together to celebrate their time on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The cast posed for a stunning photo shoot with photographer James White, but White wasn’t the only one taking photos. The cast couldn’t help but take some photos of their own from behind-the-scenes to share on their personal social media accounts.

Keep going through the slideshow to see behind-the-scenes photos from Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Charisma Carpenter.

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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Nicholas Brendon

A Buffy the Vampire Slayer group selfie from Nicholas Brendon’s Twitter.

Charisma Carpenter

The lead of Buffy’s Angel spinoff reunite on Charisma Carpenter’s Instagram.

Michelle Trachtenberg

The Summers sisters reunite on Michelle Trachtenberg’s Instagram page.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Buffy reunites with her bad boy lover, Spike (James Marsters), on Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Instagram…

Sarah Michelle Gellar

…and then with her undead high school sweetheart, Angel (David Boreanaz).

Michelle Trachtenberg

Michelle Trachtenberg shares and behind-the-scenes selfie on Instagram with a reflection of her time on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

The slayer breaks all the rules on Twitter.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

A Summers family reunion on Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Twitter.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

A behind-the-scenes look at Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz’s cover shoot.

Charisma Carpenter

Charisma Carpenter and Joss Whedon get photobombed by Alexis Denisof and David Boreanaz.