Although Sarah Michelle Gellar has been married to actor Freddie Prinze Jr. for 11 years, her new series, “The Crazy Ones,” has Gellar feeling like a bride-to-be.
“It’s like a wedding day. I am so excited and so nervous about it at the same time,” the 36-year-old actress said.
Gellar played the title character in the cult TV series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” from 1997 to 2003. Her new CBS comedy from producer David E. Kelley (“Ally McBeal”) is about an advertising firm run by Gellar and her brilliant-yet-eccentric father, played by Robin Williams.
Q: How was it going back to work right after giving birth to your new son?
A: My little one was like 4 months old (when she started “The Crazy Ones”). … If you watch the different sizes of my shirt during the pilot from (breast)feeding my son, it’s actually kind of amusing.
Q: Do your children understand what you do for a living?
A: They don’t. I think my daughter thinks I get my hair and makeup done for a living. … Ideally I’d like to keep it away from her as long as I can, but it’s hard. People take her picture, they say things to her, and I know the conversation is coming.
Q: Will you ever make a ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ film?
A: First of all, I don’t know if you know this, but I am a wee bit older now than I was when I did that show, and so I think Buffy would have to, like, literally have a wooden walker that she stakes the vampires with. … If there was a story to be told, then maybe we would all revisit it, but we’re not sure it really works in the box of one story. And to be honest, I don’t know if I could lift my leg over my knee anymore. It literally would be like “Buffy the Golden Girls.” It would be like Willow and Buffy in caftans sitting in Florida somewhere.
