Sarah Michelle Gellar recalls working on "toxic male set" for years - The A.V. Club

Sarah Michelle Gellar surely knows however to vanquish villainous creatures connected screen, but successful a caller panel, she revealed that she was dealing with them—or astatine slightest 1 successful particular—behind the scenes arsenic well.

“For truthful long, I was connected a acceptable that I deliberation was known for being an highly toxic antheral set,” Gellar said during TheWrap’s caller Power of Women Summit. “And truthful that was ingrained successful my caput that that was what each sets were like, and that women were pitted against each other—that if women became friends, past we became excessively powerful, truthful you had to support that down.”

While Gellar, who starred arsenic Buffy Summers successful the ‘90s mega-hit Buffy The Vampire Slayer, did not explicitly sanction manager Joss Whedon successful her comments, it is not hard to work betwixt the lines. Last year, aggregate actors specified arsenic Buffy co-star Charisma Carpenter and Justice League’s Gal Gadot and Ray Fisher accused the manager of “gross, abusive, unprofessional, and wholly unacceptable” behaviour connected set, specified arsenic threatening their careers and calling a then-pregnant Carpenter “fat.” (Whedon denied these claims and referred to himself arsenic “one of the nicer showrunners that’s ever been” successful a responding Vulture profile.)

While Gellar has remained mostly soundless connected the allegations frankincense far, she did constitute “while I americium arrogant to person my sanction associated with Buffy Summers, I don’t privation to beryllium everlastingly associated with the sanction Joss Whedon,” successful a 2021 Instagram post.

In her caller comments, however, she took the accidental to praise the supportive coworkers she’s experienced successful the proceeding years. “Now that I’ve had this accidental to enactment with truthful galore much women and men that enactment women arsenic well, I realized however casual an acquisition it tin be,” she said. “Unfortunately, we’re inactive successful that spot wherever each of those departments a batch of times request to beryllium women for america to person a voice.”