loadeds artical on Sarah Michell Geller(feb 2001)

Buffy herself on bad girls and driving naked

Buffy Summers is the choson one. The Vampire Slayer. She’s the kind of doe-eyed blonde who
gets called ‘Kooky’, but she has a life mission to track down undead creepies in her home town of
Sunnydale and slay the fuck out of them. But is Sarah Michelle Geller, the 26-year-old actress,
voted Loaded’s sexiest woman of all time, who plays her a bad-arsed fighting machine? Or is her
arse actually quite gentle?

Loaded has just had its own Bad Girl Olympics. You were a child actress and a lot of them
turned out to be bad girls,
did il
they?
I don’t know... those are just the stories we love to publicise — we love gossip. For every Dana
Plato Ii Kimberley off ‘Diff’rent strokes’ died of an overdose in 1999 after a history of drugs and
shoplifting], There’s four or five of me. I grew up in the business and I’ve never robbed,
murdered or maimed anyone

WhatAbout yourfans and the public at large?Any evil leveled at you from them? Yeah, I’ve
had some of the nastiest things said to me recently, and it’s not something I’m getting used to just
yet. Someone yelled at me recently “We’re going to ruin you. We’re not going to watch your
show anymore.” It’s an awkward situation.

Speaking of which, I heard a rumour you were caught driving to work naked

is that true?
Er, sort of. I’d worked all night on Buffy and I was at cracking point. I got Out a really pretty dress
and slip and boots and the whole deal, and got dressed. I had a convertible at the time. I was
driving to work and everyone was looking at me, so I was thinking, “well, I must be looking
good” and all of a sudden people really started staring. I looked down and I realized I had put the
slip on but never put the dress on. I pulled my car over and put the top immediately.

Could have been worse
Yeah, but the writer of the show was waiting for me in front of the trailer, waiting to talk to me.
When I had to stand up dressed like that he was like “what’s happened?” When I told him what
I’d done, he dragged me to the set to show everyone. I,ve never lived it down — but at least I
wasn’t driving naked!