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Ep 5: Linda Blair and Sarah Michelle Gellar
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On today's episode we discuss Linda Blair and Sarah Michelle Geller! Follow us on twitter at @SinSisters_
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Introduction and Horror Podcast
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Speaker
Welcome back to the sinister sister women in horror podcast I'm Felicia and I'm Lauren and we're best friends and we talked about horror and today we ordered taco salads Yes, we did and it was nice from kadoba from kadoba. They're not giving us any money. Damn it. No sponsors No sponsors on this podcast, but also please give us money and later time. We'll just insert a kadoba ad here Yeah, right now three two and
00:00:26
Speaker
Okay, great.
Actresses in Horror Films
00:00:29
Speaker
So today we are talking about actresses. Yes, we are. Yeah. I'm doing Linda Blair. Yes, and I'm doing Samra Shell Geller. I already forgot who you were doing. I was going to also surprise them and then I realized it'll be in the title.
00:00:43
Speaker
Well, now you know everyone. Now we really know. Now you really know for truth. Yeah. Because sometimes we mislabel these. Sometimes I mislabeled them already. But we're really doing our best in this very DIY podcast. Yes. There's no one on staff here except Toby. And if you hear some weird chewing sounds, it's because my dog is chewing a bone right next to us. And it's better than barking. So enjoy. Enjoy. Should I start? Yes. Linda Blair. Linda Blair.
00:01:11
Speaker
Okay, so, she was born on January 22nd. 1959. 1959! In St. Louis, Missouri. Which, guess what? Now I can say I've been there. Oh, really? Where did you go? I went a couple of weekends ago. Oh, I didn't even know that. I know. I mean, I don't know where you go. For auditions. I don't know where you go, what you do. I travel the world. Oh, yeah. Can you imagine if that was my real job? Just traveling. Yeah. As a blogger or a blogger.
00:01:40
Speaker
I just, uh, go to places and talk about horror. But St. Louis? I just go to St. Louis. I did go to St. Louis. Nice. Not to visit Linda Blair's hometown, but maybe now I will. I was like, you're going to say grave site. And I was like, yeah, you should have visited Linda Blair's grave site. And then I was like, wait a minute. She's alive and well. She's alive and well.
00:01:57
Speaker
Okay, sorry on that note she's alive and well when she was two years old she moved to New York her dad got a job So she started, you know doing real things. Mm-hmm She formally began her career as a child model at age classic. Mm-hmm
00:02:17
Speaker
So good. Commercial catalog modeling. Target, JCPenney. The pictures are pretty Shirley Temple-y. Oh, really? Yeah. So her next sort of thing that she was doing, she had a regular role on the soap opera, Hidden Faces. Nice. And then two roles in theatrical films. Great. So she was a- Already killing it. Yeah. She was a working child actor. Yeah. But she did want to be a veterinarian.
00:02:46
Speaker
So at that time had no interest in acting professionally for her life. But her father sort of made the choice that they weren't going to go to LA and really try for the child actor thing, but she kept booking commercials and print ads and doing her thing in New York.
00:03:07
Speaker
Um, her mom was her manager. Momager. Very active in her work life. Very Chris Kardashian. Yeah. I mean, so the most horrifying thing that I read was they taped her boobs down so that she could keep playing kids. No! Oh god. So good. So good.
00:03:27
Speaker
That's awful. Yeah, terrible. So in 1972, this is really why we're talking about Linda Blair
Linda Blair's Role in The Exorcist
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Speaker
at all. She was 13 and she was chosen for the role of Reagan, the possessed daughter of a famous actress in The Exorcist. The scariest movie of all time. Of all time, I think. Yeah. Yeah. It's my dad's number one. Yeah. His he thinks it's the scariest movie he's ever seen. It is the scariest movie that I've ever seen. It really freaks me out. Yeah. I've only seen it a couple of times.
00:03:57
Speaker
Really? Yeah. I think I've seen it too many times and still. Really? I'm horrified. I think I've seen it twice. It's so gross. It's really gross. Okay, so I'm going to talk about it. You can't wait. Let's hear all about it. So they had originally looked at adult actors for the role because they knew how awful it was going to be on that actress, how taxing. Her mom brought her to the director without an appointment.
00:04:21
Speaker
Real mama Germania. Even in her audition, she had to read these horrible lines, but she didn't tell her mother because she knew that her mom would be upset by it. But they did, they did read- Like the cuss words. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cuss words. Cuss words. We don't say cuss words on this podcast. No, we don't. We're very classy.
00:04:41
Speaker
There's gonna be some time when we drop just a big ol' F-bomb everywhere. But not today. Not today, because we're classy. We're classy. We're literally drinking red wine right now. Yeah.
00:04:52
Speaker
Cause we're classy. Cause we're classy. Go ahead. Okay, so she and her mother read the novel ahead of the audition, so like they knew what they were getting themselves into, but it was very difficult obviously on her to do the film. Yeah. She wasn't really interested in the subject matter, she didn't really know what was happening. I mean they didn't, you know, they didn't film it
00:05:13
Speaker
sequentially, is that the right word? Oh, yeah. So she really had no idea. Oh, interesting. Sort of what the plot was in all the story. She was just doing what they told her to do. Exactly. Because of all the special effects, it was just tough on her. It's interesting to me, so she calls it a theological thriller.
00:05:34
Speaker
She doesn't even call it a horror movie. What does that mean? Like in interviews? I don't know. Just like a religion thriller? I guess so. I would say it's the most horrific of horror movies. Yeah, right? She does, to be fair, so all the horrible things, she does talk about the director checking in with her and making sure she was doing okay. Okay. But I think ultimately it was just a lot to ask of a child. Yeah. I mean, they're teen. Yeah. Yeah. Was that like seventh grade?
00:05:59
Speaker
Sixth grade? I don't even know. I can't remember. Seventh grade? Probably. Feels like seventh. Yeah. Feels like seventh. So she had to, even though it was a voiceover, she did have to say all those horrible lines. So she is saying all those obscenities. She is, you know.
00:06:15
Speaker
speaking horrible things. With the cross. The cross. That part really freaked me out. I was just like, this is so wrong. And I don't, I mean, I think she was, she was obviously doing it. Yeah, she had to do it. Yeah. Yeah. It's so crazy. So the, some of the things that were bad for her. So the set was always kept below freezing to get that breath smoke thing. Now that is not safe. Yeah. That's not safe. It's not good.
00:06:42
Speaker
And they actually like put her in that harness when you know that scene where she's like thrashing up and down. Oh yeah. That's a harness that's like physically moving her. Oh god. Up and down.
00:06:52
Speaker
Um, and there was a time that she did it where the lacing came loose. So it was real cries of pain. Oh, she doesn't like stop the scene. No, cause she was a kid. Oh my God, she was a kid. So they're like great acting. Truly. I mean, so when they wanted her to do another take, she, at some point they were like, we have to do another take of this. And she was worried if she said like, we need to fix the,
00:07:20
Speaker
But so the lacing came loose and when they said we have to do another take and she was worried if she said she couldn't do it in that moment, they'd have to do it like another day, they'd have to come back to it. She's like let's just do it and get it done.
00:07:35
Speaker
Oh man that's awful. Terrible. I also watched, so on YouTube you can see one of the possession scenes with her real voice. And that's what we'll be doing as soon as we finish recording this podcast. Yes we will. I have to see it. It's really horrifying because it's just this like, it's her real child voice saying all these terrible things. Oh it's like really freaky. I wonder why they chose, I guess because the demon voice they want like a deep scary voice.
00:08:04
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I also like I don't know. I feel like couldn't they have told her to say things that made her mouth look similar but weren't quite as a watermelon. Yeah. I don't know. One time I was in a musical and I didn't really have all the rehearsal time. And so I didn't know all the words to one song. So I just mouth eggs and watermelon for three minutes in front of a full audience. You're joking. No, you're just an ensemble. Yeah.
00:08:28
Speaker
Just dancing and mouthing words. And just making up words. But you know, I'm a professional actress. Do you remember what the musical was? I do, I don't want to tell you. It was runaways. What? That's not bad. I was at the beach for the first week of rehearsal because, you know, I was like 13 and so I had to go where my family went. Of course. And then when I got back to rehearsal, like, they had already learned everything and I was like, damn, like, I barely attend to learn my one monologue. It was awful.
00:08:55
Speaker
No, that's acceptable. I thought you were going to say, like, the music man. It was a music man. Something that everyone knows. 76 trombones. Copyright. OK. OK. Anyways, we're going to go about that. So that's Linda Blair. Just a little tangent. Casual flashback. Then, in addition to all these terrible things that she was enduring, there also was, you know, freaky set stuff, as there always is on these porn movies. So the devil. Yeah.
00:09:24
Speaker
There was an electrical fire that shut down the set for six weeks. Six weeks? Yeah, a long time. That's a lot. I guess a lot was burnt. Yeah, that's insane. Burn-ted. A lot was burneded. A lot was burneded. Also, actor Jack McGowan died shortly after he finished filming his scenes. Who's that? He's, you know, he's... I did this last time, didn't I? I can't remember. I can always cut it out.
00:09:53
Speaker
Cut out the research. Yeah, I think he told me lesson too. Yeah, he's, oh yeah, he plays the director in the movie. Oh, how did he die? We don't need to know. No, we do, I know this. Why do I keep asking you questions? Stop asking questions, I don't know. I'm just excited, sorry. I know, we're having a great time. We're having a great time. We have wine. Do you have wine, listener? He died from influenza after complications. Oh no. Yeah.
00:10:23
Speaker
That always sounds like the fake disease, where it's like they couldn't figure out what it was, so they said influenza. They just were like, ah, you died.
00:10:29
Speaker
It was really sick, it was really sick and influenza. You died. Sorry. That's not funny. I know, no hate on influenza. Terrible. Okay, also, as Linda Blair was all, as Linda was having things physically happen to her, Ellen Burstyn also injured her back performing one of the stunts. Oh yeah, I've heard of one. That's the one that's also like a real cry of pain. Yeah. What happened? Was she like thrown back or something? Yeah, I think it's one of those, it's one of those scenes where I think
00:10:59
Speaker
she gets thrown yeah not great and they kept it that's like the tape yeah yeah that's crazy so after a year and a half of filming they wrapped so then that is a really long time yeah is it not i guess i don't know much about the internet okay well that sounds like a long time it feels like a really long time i don't know who knows six weeks they were out because of the fire so it took a year and
Post-Exorcist Challenges and Career
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Speaker
So then she had this weird blissful time where the movie hadn't come out. So she went back to her normal life. She attended high school. She competed in equestrian competitions. Horse girl! She's a horse girl. She's living her life happy. Good for her. So then once the movie came out,
00:11:47
Speaker
She received a lot of negative press from the media, deeming her role in the movie and the movie as blasphemous. Just sort of, I guess, from religious groups. Not negative press for her performance. Just that role existed, I think.
00:12:03
Speaker
I mean, yeah, I get it. It was a different time. Yeah, exactly. So it premiered in December 1973. Reporters were speculating about her mental state, suggesting that the filming process had resulted in her having a mental breakdown. I would have had a mental breakdown. Yeah, honestly, if she did, that's fine. It makes sense. Yeah, it's rightful.
00:12:28
Speaker
but she received anonymous death threats and terrible things. Warner Brothers ended up hiring the police to live at her house for six months, which is crazy. That is crazy. Yeah. Oh my God. It's also like the rest of her family didn't sign up for this. No, truly. That's super crazy. So then in addition to this, Warner Brothers flew her to California and threw her a big birthday party with the cast and the crew
00:12:56
Speaker
but to show press of her being a normal teenager. Oh, I see. Yeah, and then they sent her on an international press tour to also try to be like, she's normal. She's fine. Yeah, but at these press events, people would ask her ridiculous questions, because they thought she really was possessed. They would truly ask her questions about the devil and religion, and she would be like, I'm 15. And I don't know anything. Yeah. That's crazy. But she tried her best. Yeah.
00:13:26
Speaker
So she talking about her experience on the movie, she says very few would have survived was the quote that I watched the most horrific thing of her life. Sounds terrible. Uh, she, she really looked at it as, you know, her taking a job and couldn't really understand why everyone was condemning her for being this part of the movie. It was like other people that made the movie, other people that had the idea for the movie. Like she was literally doing a job and
00:13:55
Speaker
And getting death threats. And literally becoming the victim of all of it. That's horrible. It's not great. So the good news is this role earned her Golden Globe and People's Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as an Academy Award nomination.
00:14:13
Speaker
So she didn't win the award. Tell me all about it. I mean, just controversy. So her stunt doubles started talking about how she had done the more difficult possession scenes, which is not true. The writer of the film, I watched an interview with him where he said the stunt doubles in less than 57 seconds of the film.
00:14:35
Speaker
Wow, that is not a lot. No, but also I don't know how he pulled 57 seconds out of his budget or he just paid it up. But why not be like less than a minute? 57 seconds. Just to really sell it. I know. And the terrible thing is that the Oscar that year went to Tatum O'Neill from Paper Moon and she's 10.
00:14:58
Speaker
So in fact, younger than Linda Blair. So she wasn't even like the youngest nominee. Yep. So she really got nothing. She got nothing. She wasn't an impressive, you know. But Paper Moon's a great movie. Well, I haven't seen it. Well.
00:15:13
Speaker
I'm sorry for you. Also watching that after this. It's a great movie. So after, uh, after all this, wait, one of my, oh, now I'm going to talk about some other things. Oh. So she was raised Protestant, which I just think is interesting. And then her role was like, yes, devil movie. Yeah, truly. I mean, so now she's more spiritual. She sort of, uh, looked into her spirituality after the movie to find strength. She found it as like, you know,
00:15:41
Speaker
She wanted to become more spiritual in some ways, I guess. She doesn't really believe in demon possession, which I think is interesting. She thinks it's mostly mental illness, but also she doesn't believe in dabbling with the dark side at all.
00:15:58
Speaker
Just in case. So just in case. Just in case. Don't mess with that. I respect that. I almost just f-bombed. Oh, it's okay. I mean, it's our podcast. I guess so. And you can't tell us what to do. No, you can't. So after The Exorcist, she made Born Innocent, which is made for television drama film. That included a graphic rape scene.
00:16:23
Speaker
So really from icky thing to icky thing. Yeah. But she was, she was still like young. Yeah. I mean, I think, I think relatively young, maybe like 18. Still young. Yeah. And it was, it's a rape scene where several girls rape her with a plunger handle.
00:16:41
Speaker
Not good. I can't watch that. I know. I haven't seen it. That's not the horror I'm interested in. I can't watch that. It's too much. But then she made the Exorcist part two because she read the script and thought it was good. Never seen it. No, I can't speak to it. Yeah. But it was a flop.
00:16:58
Speaker
Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry, Linda. She then did a stream of B-movies, including Repossessed, which is a spoof on The Exorcist. That sounds exciting. I think we should see. Seems more of our ally. Then she did the slasher film Hell Knight in 1981. Which we need to watch. Which we also need to watch. Our list is...
00:17:18
Speaker
ever growing. More fun things. She played Rizzo in a revival of Grease on Broadway. On Broadway? I think so. On any stage really is exciting. But if it's on Broadway, that's like super crazy. Can you imagine? I just typed into Google Linda Blair.
00:17:37
Speaker
Broadway, just in case. I mean, I can see how she would make a great Rizzo. On the Broadway? On the Broadway! With singing? Yes. I hope she's good. She took over for Lucy Lawless as Rizzo in Broadway's Grease revival. Dang, that's so cool. Yeah. Wow. Can you imagine? I love Grace. Me too. I wish I could hear her. Yeah, me too. We'll see you two that later too. Yeah.
00:18:05
Speaker
She also had a cameo in Scream, which is cool. She's one of the next reporters outside the school. Yes, yes, yes. Then just because, you know, what else do we want besides, you know, dating? That's all I want. Relationship gossip. A little bit of gossip. So she dated Rick Springfield, who's the, who sang Jessie's Girl. Jessie's Girl. Oh. Just a little sample. Just a little sample.
00:18:32
Speaker
Felicia's in the band. It's called Jessie's Girl. Wow. No, it's not. No, keep going. Okay. He was 25 when they were dating and she was 15.
00:18:44
Speaker
just to put that out there. Big difference. Big difference. 10 years cannot be a ton, but 25 to 15. Yeah, 15 is like, I just bought a thong for the first time. Like it's like very different than like 25 to 35. Yeah. Yeah, it's intense. It's a lot. So they tried to keep it very quiet. She had some drug troubles that also didn't help her image and her agents dropped her. Oh no.
00:19:10
Speaker
I know, I know. Okay, that's not looking good. It's almost sort of like this really famous movie and then just sort of downhill, sounds like. Yeah, not so great for her. She did a nude spread in a magazine. That's okay. You know, we support that. We support it.
00:19:26
Speaker
But in this interview, I guess, she said she loved Rick James music. He's the super freak guy. Thank you. A funk musician. I would not have known. I know. So he called her. He saw this interview. Called her. Great photos. Yeah, he was like, I see what you're doing.
00:19:45
Speaker
I see what you have to offer and I like it. And I'm interested. So she came to New York and they hit it off and his song Cold Blooded was supposedly rumored to be written for her. Wow. I know. That's cool. I want Rick James to write a song. I want somebody to write a song about me. Yeah. Travis. Travis?
00:20:06
Speaker
So she's very involved in animal welfare. This is the good news.
Linda Blair and Animal Welfare
00:20:14
Speaker
We're going back up. That's nice. She's very involved in animal welfare. A veterinarian. She's not a veterinarian. She likes animals. I think she still has horses too.
00:20:24
Speaker
Wow, lifelong horse girl. Yeah. She established the Linda Blair World Heart Foundation in 2004. Sounds good. And it works to rescue abused, neglected animals. So beautiful. I'll take some. She's a vegan. Oh.
00:20:41
Speaker
Good for her. She doesn't have any children, she thinks, for a reason. So she doesn't become a momager? I think so. And make her child be a demon? Yeah, maybe. And then just to end this all, she does in fact like pea soup after all this time. She can't. She does! Nobody likes pea soup.
00:21:00
Speaker
Yeah, I've never met anyone that was like, you know what I could go for? Some pea soup. That's what I say every day. Oh, is it? Yeah. Gross, but that is funny. That's a good ending for sure.
00:21:15
Speaker
Hold the microphone actually yes, because it's on a pillow because this is a DIY podcast and it will fall over I'm holding it now. It's your turn
Sarah Michelle Gellar's Early Life
00:21:26
Speaker
now. It's my turn and I'm gonna talk about my lord and savior Sam or shall killer
00:21:33
Speaker
Yeah, where are the angels? So, thank you. Lauren also has a band called The Angels. It's also not true. This podcast has a lot of lying in it. It's okay. So, Sarah Beschaukiller. Is this where we reveal that this is all a lie? This is all a lie. Actually, there is no actress named Sarah Beschaukiller.
00:21:54
Speaker
She was born in Long Island in 1977, but she was raised in New York City. So we have, wait, you said Linda Blair was raised in New York, right? St. Louis. So, no, no, no. Wait, she was, okay. Sorry, I forgot what you said. She was, no, no, I'm embarrassed because she was born in St. Louis.
00:22:14
Speaker
I said she moved to New York, but she actually grew up in Connecticut, and they commuted to New York. Oh, they commuted in and out of the city. Classic. Classic. Classic. It's okay. So, Samara Schekeller, she did live on the Upper East Side, where someone else I know lives, but I won't tell you who. No. And, yeah, so she did commercials as a kid, like Linda Blair.
00:22:38
Speaker
Age six, she was in this movie called Invasion of Privacy. It was her first movie. And then the first big timey thing she did was playing Kendall Hart on All My Children. So similar journey to Linda Blair. So she did commercials and then was on a soap opera.
00:22:57
Speaker
She got a Daytime Emmy Award, so proud of her, for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series. For the soap opera? For the soap opera. Oh. Which I think is really funny that it's Outstanding Younger Actress.
00:23:12
Speaker
instead of like young actress. It's a weird name for an award. It doesn't matter. Maybe that's like the nicer way of. Oh, so the old people don't feel old. Yeah. Maybe. Maybe. There isn't an older actress. The older actress category. She graduated from LaGuardia School of the Arts. She was on TV like while she was in school. So she had like some school at LaGuardia and some tutors situation, classic, child star. She was probably so cool to the other people in her high school, right?
00:23:41
Speaker
Neither of that are horribly made fun of. It's gotta be one or the other. But I'm not sure which. In my research, didn't find that. Were you bullied as a child? That's your first question, to see how Michelle Geller would meet her. So obviously the thing that I was introduced to with Sarah Michelle Geller was Buffy the Vampire Slayer, my spiritual of all time.
Impact of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
00:24:07
Speaker
In 1996, she got the script for it and she initially auditioned to be Cordelia. And then she was reading the script and she was like, you know, I think I'm really more of a star. And she was like, I don't want to be the side character. No. She was like, I'm a lead. I'm a lead. And then she goes to Joss Whedon and was like, I would like to audition for Buffy. And he was like, but you're such a good Cordelia. And she was like, you don't understand.
00:24:32
Speaker
I'm such a good Buffy. And he was like, yeah, sure. And so she auditioned. And he was like, yes. Because he loved this idea of this tiny, blonde girl that should be the victim that's always getting eaten first and chased around the house and whatever. And her being the one that actually is fighting the demons and the Slayer. Yeah. I wish we could see the other people that auditioned for Buffy. Oh, me too.
00:25:00
Speaker
Do you think they were all, were they all little blonde girls? Do you know that? The girl that played Cordelia was auditioning for Buffy. Oh, shoot. And those roles kind of got switched, yeah. She's probably sad. She's fine. She's fine. She's probably fine. So the show aired in 1997.
00:25:17
Speaker
Actually, this is random. This is just out of my brain. This is not even in my notes. But there is a pilot episode of Buffy that you can watch on the internet, which is like the original pilot, not the first episode of season one. And it's got a different willow in it, which is super weird. Blasphemous. Yeah, I know. It's really weird to watch. And also not that good. And you're like, what is going on?
00:25:42
Speaker
Obviously, they figured it out. But it's still Sarah Michelle Geller? It is. Right? Fuck. Yes, it is. It is. It is Sarah Michelle Geller. And if I'm wrong, then I'll just edit this out because it's our podcast. Strong and wrong. Strong and wrong, baby.
00:25:55
Speaker
So the show aired in 1997, it aired for 7 seasons and 144 episodes of Slayer Beauty. And that's why it took me 3 years to get through it. What? It took me 3 years to watch all the Buffy? It took me like 10 minutes. I don't know. When you told me to start watching it, it felt like a very long time until I finished it.
00:26:14
Speaker
Maybe it wasn't three years and also like Buffy I mean I can fully go into it a little bit but like I just never Buffy when I was in a very early high school and I was like
00:26:27
Speaker
Not that I was necessarily going through a rough time or anything, but it was just a very normal high school is hard situation where it's like, I'm hormonal, and I'm crying a lot, and also really tired. And also very horny, and it's all very confusing. Well, I was about to say that I think that's where I am now. Oh, is that where you are now? Exactly where Lauren is right now. We're going to cry all the time. I am so sorry. I'll come for you after the podcast. No, I'm fine.
00:26:57
Speaker
So yes, blah, blah, blah, high school, blah, blah, blah. For Christmas, actually I think it was like when I was in the eighth grade I actually got this box set. I got the fifth season of Buffy for Christmas because I don't know why. I don't know why my mom, I shouldn't really ask her why she bought that for me because I didn't ask for it. Because I was the only one in the $10 bin. In the $10 bin. She was like, oh, there's a girl in the front of this. No, sure. But I watched it like four times all the way through, just season five.
00:27:26
Speaker
Cause like it was before streaming, you know, it's like before you could just like binge watch a whole series. Like you had to like either see it on TV or you had to buy the box sets. This is the most unrelated thing, but I had season five of The Office. And so that was the thing that I watched over and over. So season five, I think is just... Season five! That's the winner. I also still love season five of Buffy.
00:27:47
Speaker
It's with Glory, the god. She's so hot in that red dress and evil. So evil. So evil. So I watched that a bunch of times. And then in high school, I found the internet. Or I found out that you could look. I found out that if you Google season one, episode one, Buffy the Empire Slayer, watch online free. Yes.
00:28:10
Speaker
Yep, you can find it on the internet. Anything. You can buy literally anything by typing in online watch free. You just have to click through the porn ads. You have to click through all the porn ads. You have to click through all of the, like every time you click, you try to click play, an ad pops up. You try to click full screen and ad pops up. It was honestly awful. It's always like boobs. Yeah, that is weird. Or it's like a video game about boobs. Yeah. And you're like, what?
00:28:36
Speaker
Why does somebody wanted this? But you'd always be like, mom, it's not, it's just, I'm trying to watch Buffy. Wow, wow, yeah. So I watched all seven seasons like that, basically, and I would just stay up until like four in the morning every single night. When I would get over this, I would like, you were crying all the time because you were so tired. Maybe, maybe that was my problem.
00:29:02
Speaker
But yeah, I would go to school and then I would go to dance class or whatever and then I would come home and then I would sort of do homework and then I'd stay up till four in the morning watching Buffy. But I found the show very enlightening for me in many ways and I think really helped me out as I was growing up into a person and growing up into a strong woman, which I would say that I am. You are. Thank you.
00:29:29
Speaker
And yeah, I would just say like everyone in the show somehow like affected like how I am as a person or like also like how I treat other people I love that. Yeah, it's just a really great life lessons in Buffy, but mostly just that like
00:29:43
Speaker
It doesn't really matter who you are, you have power, and you have choices about what you do with your power. Because everyone has power. When you're mean to someone, that's having power. When you're nice to someone, that's having power. And it's all these things that go throughout the series, I feel really shaped like who I became.
00:30:01
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And I love monsters and vampires. I also love vampires. So the show is big for me. I also always thought her and Spike should've ended up together. I don't know why. It's all about Angel. I understand that and I agree.
00:30:18
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But Spike would die for her. You know what I mean? Spike is that boy that is so obsessed with you that you date because they're just obsessed with you. Oh god that's so sad but that's exactly what happens. Angel.
00:30:34
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Angel you know what like I have the dumbest monologue and all of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is. People love this fucking monologue and I hate it. What is it? Oh there you go mom. So she's there like sitting in a graveyard buffing an angel and she's like
00:30:51
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I'm just like cookie dough. Do you know what I'm talking about? She's like, I'm like cookie dough and I can't like love you right now because I'm not fully done baking yet. But one day I'll like be a cookie and then maybe we can be together or something like that. I think I blacked that out of my mind. Or did you just throw up in your mouth because I did. Yeah, that too. And people always like quote that part and I'm just like, no, that is stupid. But everything else is perfect. So yeah, I gathered a couple of
00:31:21
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Buffy quotes I'm gonna talk about the rest of her career, but that's what I'm on right now So one of my favorite quotes is I may be dead But I'm still pretty and that's more than I can say for you. Oh Which is like something I should go down the street saying yeah, I think so or have on a shirt or a tattoo um
00:31:43
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On your forehead. On my forehead. There's also a quote that I forgot to actually write down the right wording of, but it's when all the watcher counsel is trying to tell Buffy what to do, and Buffy's like, I have the power. They don't. And that scares them or whatever. And that whole speech I always think about. Yes. And then my favorite quote is, I am the thing that monsters have nightmares about. Yes.
00:32:12
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Like that is, that is so good. God, it's so good. But, yeah. It's so good. So now, we can, oh wait, now I have to tell you this too. So after I watched all of Buffy online free video. Yes.
00:32:27
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off of Google and who knows what websites. Clicking through the ads. Clicking through the ads. I finally went in the store one day and I was like, oh, I can just collect all the box sets. So I went on this crazy mission, went to all these Goodwills and weird record stores and all these places. No one will ever know that anymore.
00:32:46
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I know, right? No one's going to have to fight for their content anymore. I had to fight for my content. What a good time. Blockbuster had this idea you were looking for. If they didn't have it, it was just like, oh, I had to come back or put it on hold for me. Or drive to the next Blockbuster town. Oh, God. A different time.
00:33:04
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But yeah, so like over a period of like a year or so I like collected all the seasons and it was like I still have them They're like they're very special to me and they're all like banged up because they're all used like none of them were like new except for that one season five That was new when I got it and the rest are just like trash from other people's houses, but they all work perfectly fine and That was like one of the things I packed when I went to college was all my seasons of Buffy
00:33:30
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And I was like, I hope everyone doesn't think I'm weird. Okay. Did they? Probably, I don't know. I try not to ask.
00:33:37
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Okay, other horror works, so Sarah Michelle Geller has done quite a bit of horror work, other than Buffy the Vint Empire Slayer.
Gellar's Horror Films of 1997
00:33:44
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So, 1997, huge year for Sarah Michelle Geller. That's the year that Buffy came out. It's also the year that I Know What You Did Last Summer came out. Amazing. And also the year Screen 2 came out, which she also was in. I forgot about that. Yeah, she was Cece, who is like a sorority girl that dies. Wait, at the beginning, right? She dies, not at the beginning, but she doesn't, she's not the final girl, you know, obviously.
00:34:07
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But she does, I mean, she does like a third of the way through, I don't know. Is that wrong? I don't know. But yeah, big year, so.
00:34:19
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Both those movies, I know what you did last summer, and Scream 2 were both Kevin Williams' scripts. So I think after they were filming, I know what you did last summer. He asked if she wanted to be in Scream 2, and she didn't even read the script. She was just like, sure. And then somehow they worked out all the schedules. So she was super big. I just rewatched. I know what you did last summer, by the way. Oh, it's so much fun. It's so good. Yeah, I love that movie. OK. Her hair. I'll never get over it.
00:34:46
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Yeah. But since, because of Buffy, it started, and I was like, why does Sarah and Michelle Geller have a wig on? And also in Scream 2, where you're like, why is she not fighting Ghostface? It's so weird. I'm waiting for the random martial arts move to come out, and for her to say something punny. And nothing happens, and she just dies. And you're like, oh my god. Buffy just died. And that is something I think that's hard, when you're in a series for a really long time. It's like, how do people recognize you as other characters?
00:35:16
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Totally, but so 1998 she did I still know what you did last summer The sequel and then in 2004 so this is I'm just I'm just doing like the horror work. Sorry guys She was in the remake of the grudge
00:35:33
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amazing um actually and when must scooby doo oh that was when was scooby doo that's not on my list it's not horror um they're just monsters but you know what it is sort of spooky so i will at least tell you the year i feel like it's 2002 two it's 2002 that's what i was and then 2004 is the second one
00:35:57
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Monsters, Unleashed. I can't remember if I saw the second one. I don't think I did. I'm sure it was just fine. So, The Grudge, 2004. And then, The Grudge 2 in 2006. And then, she has two other random horror movies that I don't know anything about, which obviously I should watch, but I haven't yet. And one is The Return from 2006, which I've never heard of. No.
00:36:25
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And then Possession, which is the most generic movie title I've ever heard, which was 2008. So I don't know what those are about, but hopefully they're fine. And then the most recent thing I saw was, so during the Super Bowl this year, there was a Olay commercial, in which she was the star of, and it was like a horror movie based commercial. So it was like...
00:36:48
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Yeah, there was someone that's trying to kill her, and she runs upstairs with her husband, and he comes to kill her, and he's like, oh, sorry, I've got the wrong girl or something. And she's like, oh my god, it's because I've been using Olay. I used to look like this. And she holds up a weird photo of herself covered with terrible makeup and looking awful, and then her style that's perfectly shiny and clean.
00:37:12
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It was weird, but it was cute, and I'm sure she was paid a lot of money to do that. I feel like Olay commercials are very convincing. I mean, I was convinced. Yeah. So other than horror stuff, she's also married to Freddie Prinze Jr., which is cute. Very cute. It's very cute. A very long relationship by Hollywood standards. Yeah, they're good. They seem to be good. They seem to be good. Watch them announce a divorce.
00:37:39
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and I'll be like, never mind. They seem to be fine. We got Instagram. They have children. Yeah. She has two kids. And in recent years, she's sort of been chilling on the acting and doing some stuff with
Sarah Michelle Gellar's Food Projects
00:37:53
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food. So she sort of started her own business. She has sort of two things. One, she has a cookbook, which came out in 2017. And the other thing is she co-founded this thing called Foodsters with a couple other people. And it's basically a...
00:38:09
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It's a food crafting brand. So it's like you buy this box of stuff that has all the ingredients for you to cook cute things with your kids. Mostly like baking stuff. So it's like very family oriented baking kits.
00:38:23
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I guess. Cuff cakes? Yeah, probably cuff cakes. But it seems cute and I'm proud of her. But yeah, so in terms of horror, I just like really love her because she has played obviously one of the most iconic, strong female horror characters ever being this like very
00:38:46
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Teenage like silly girl that also has like great power that she has to like learn how to use So she's got like the supernatural so she's not like a final girl where she's like like the normal person She's got like a supernatural aspect to her And she's also like got the side of her that's like I'm really bad at math and I say really funny jokes
00:39:08
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And it's like a really nice contrast of those two things and then you watch her like grow up throughout seven seasons and like learn how those two things like create like a woman by the end of it, which is really awesome. Also something I think is cool about her and Buffy is I heard Joss we didn't talk about this one time where so when the series first started out like
00:39:31
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from the original movie of Buffy the Vampire Slayer into the beginning of the series like it's sort of silly right it's funny it's light-hearted like yes it's horror but it's also like it's fun it's just like fun horror and then like as the series went on he started to realize that Sarah Michelle Geller could like
00:39:48
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do more grounded deeper scenes than sort of these like funny one-liners that they usually were giving her. Which eventually led to I think like one of her best performances in an episode which is the episode where her mom dies. It's so sad. Like that episode literally like shocked me as a person because I just never saw it coming because it's a lot of nowhere. And they don't have any other like sort of real
00:40:17
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death or grief or sad, even sad things. Except like Angel. Oh yeah, well he also comes back so it doesn't matter. But yeah, and the craziest thing about the mom dying is she's like, how do we bring her back? Because she's died and come back. All these mystical things are always happening, but then this superhuman thing happens and it's like, oh my god, it's so tragic. But her in that entire sequence is like,
00:40:45
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damn like she just like is an adult now it was like a strong shift in the character and I thought she did such a great job with it but she does a really good job playing the victim and the strong badass woman and she's sort of like one of my favorite horror queens of all time I love that and I love her
00:41:09
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And I guess that's it. She doesn't have a lot of drama. What if you just started crying? What if I was crying right now? Am I crying? Don't look at me. I'm just kidding. I'm not crying. But I do cry a lot when I watch Buffy. It's sort of like a reaction now. It's not even like I'm feeling something. It's just like, I'm watching Buffy and I'm crying. It's real. Yeah, I understand. I have the t-shirts. I have. What else do I need? But yeah, that's Buffy. She also, there's also,
00:41:37
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If you like Buffy, there's also a season eight that's like a comic book.
Buffy Remake Speculations
00:41:42
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So you can read like what else happens after the series ended in comic book form. I need to read it. It's actually really cool. I haven't read all of it, but I have like a couple of them. And then also
00:41:57
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they're making a Buffy remake. So we don't know a lot about it yet, but we do know that the Buffy is going to be African American, which I think is really cool. So, but that's all, we don't really know a ton yet. And we also don't really know what's gonna happen. Do you think she'll cameo? I feel like she would because she also, I mean, really understands how important Buffy is to people, like, to people's, like, use or whatever.
00:42:24
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And so like she'll post like on Instagram or something like throwbacks to Buffy like she knows people love it and like That's how those people are attached to her as an actress. Yeah And she seems like pretty good with that I feel like some actors sometimes have a hard time with that because they want to like play other roles Yeah, they don't want to be like pigeonholed or something and she's sort of like no, this is like
00:42:46
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I worked this for a long time, and like, if people think that's important, that's good. I guess it's a pretty good role to be remembered for. Yeah, absolutely. Exactly. That's Sarah Michelle Geller, and I love her. Incredible. Yeah. Is that it for the week? That's it for the week. That's all we know. All right. Well, have some sweet, sweet nightmares. And we'll see you next week. See you next week. Bye. Bye.