Sarah Michelle Gellar to return to 'All My Children'
Sarah Michelle Gellar, who appeared early in her career for three years as Kendall Hart Lang, confirmed Thursday she would return to the show -- if only for one day -- before it's canceled this fall.
Sarah Michelle Gellar to return to 'All My Children'
Jonathan Storm, Inquirer Television Critic
Sarah Michelle Gellar, who appeared early in her career for three years as Kendall Hart Lang on the long-running soap All My Children, confirmed Thursday she would return to the show -- if only for one day -- before it's canceled this fall.
"It doesn't make sense to me" that the show was killed, she said. She said she called the producers, and they were up for it. "I won't be playing Kendall," Gellar said. (Of course she's still alive and kicking -- and has been since 1970 -- currently played by Alicia Minishew with the new last name of Slater.) "I don't know what I'll do."
Gellar, now all of 34, has a new show this fall, Ringer, on the CW, in which she plays twins, both apparently on the run from people who want to kill them. It's one of the better fall series. Gellar says she took the role in part because she was tired of her nomadic life as a movie actor, and wanted to spend time with her daughter, Charlotte, who will be 2 next month. "I want to put her to bed, get up with her in the morning, see her first day of school."
She also returned for the juicy role, or roles. She plays present-day Bridget, a down-and-outer, and her socialite sister, Siobhan. And she plays them in flashbacks. "While I was traveling, I watched a lot of TV on DVDs," she said, "and I started to realize all the amazing roles for women were on TV."
Gellar developed the show for CBS, but the company that owns the network is also part-owner of the CW, and when the CBS schedule filled up with other pilots, executives shifted Ringers to the younger, less police-populated CW. "It just made sense," said Gellar, whose legendary Buffy the Vampire Slayer appeared on one of the networks that eventually merged into the CW. "It was a relief for us," said Gellar. "Nobody has better advertising and marketing than the CW, and they really respect what we do."
