Sarah Michelle Gellar (L) and Joss Whedon. (Getty Images)
Buffy the Vampire Slayerstar Sarah Michelle Gellar and Joss Whedon‘s relationship may have been more strained than it appeared, insiders say.
Variety that Gellar, who played the perky and sharp-tongued vampire slayer Buffy Summers, had a “severed relationship with Whedon” during the show’s earlier seasons.
Tensions reportedly flared to such a degree on the set of The WB show that the actor did not want the show runner’s name spoken around her. Making things, the publication described, “awkward”.
The sources familiar with the production of
Buffy, which ran from 1997 to 2003, came forward with the claim amid a reckoning of sorts for Whedon.