What a solution to make a livin’: Sarah Michelle Gellar confirmed the longstanding rumor that Dolly Parton served as a producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
What’s extra, the nation legend used to ship the solid of the supernatural sequence items throughout the holidays. Gellar shared the tidbit throughout an look on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday, after host Jimmy Fallon questioned the validity of the rumor of Parton being an uncredited producer.
“Little identified reality, the legend Dolly was a producer,” Gellar stated. “And, , we by no means noticed her. We might get Christmas items to start with that will have our title, and I’d suppose, ‘She does not even know who I’m.’ After which someday, anyone requested her about it and he or she complimented the present and my efficiency.”
“I used to be like, ‘Oh, I can die now,'” she continued. “Dolly Parton is aware of who I’m and thinks I am good.'”
Getty Photographs; Kevin Winter/Getty Photographs Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy; Dolly Parton
Parton co-founded Sandollar Productions, the corporate behind Buffy and the spin-off Angel sequence, together with her former supervisor Sandy Gallin, who served as an govt producer on the sequence throughout its seven season run between 1997 and 2003. Sandollar additionally produced the 1992 movie starring Kristy Swanson that impressed the sequence.
Gail Berman, a Sandollar govt liable for shepherding the movie right into a sequence, even as soon as recalled Parton personally handing her a check when the latter found that she was being paid much less Buffy royalties than her male counterparts.
The cult favourite sequence, centered on a highschool teen who slayed vampires and different forces of darkness, additionally starred Alyson Hannigan, David Boreanaz, Nicholas Brendon, James Marsters, and Charisma Carpenter.
Gellar lately stated she has “come to place” concerning her difficult emotions for the present, referring to the allegations that embattled sequence creator Joss Whedon fostered a toxic work environment on set. “I’ll all the time be pleased with Buffy,” she advised The Hollywood Reporter. “I’ll all the time be pleased with what my castmates did, what I did. Was it a perfect working scenario? Completely not. Nevertheless it’s OK to like Buffy for what we created as a result of I feel it is fairly spectacular.”
Watch Gellar’s interview with Fallon above.
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