From Slayer to ?Ringer?: A Chat with Sarah Michelle Gellar

There are two sides to being a TV� icon.� On the one hand, everyone recognizes you for a certain role that touched off a seismic shift in the television landscape. It’s an honor few working actors will ever achieve. Then again, such a role can become inescapable.� No matter how many years go by, it remains as present in your life as your shadow.

Sarah Michelle Gellar, known to most viewers as Buffy Summers, seems to be bearing that mantle with a measure of grace.�� But The CW’s noir mystery “Ringer“� offers her the chance to separate herself a bit more from that lasting image of her as the stake wielding, butt-kicking Slayer.

Gellar plays two very different characters – twins -�…

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