Ultimately you want to do something in life that people will remember. And with Buffy, I did that. I don't feel like I need to achieve something. I just do it because it's fun. And that takes the pressure off.

The movie gained mixed reviews after its premiere. At the audition Gellar read both her own lines and those of Harper impressing the directors enough to cast her in the role. Around that time Sarah Michelle Gellar guest-starred in three episodes of Angel and appeared as Debbie in the HBO series Sex and the City episode "Escape from New York".

Gellar came to prominence in the late 1990s when Sarah Michelle Gellar landed significant parts in 1997's successful horror films I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2 and the role of Buffy Summers on the WB/UPN television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer for which Sarah Michelle Gellar won six Teen Choice Awards and the Saturn Award for Best Genre TV Actress and received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. Sarah Michelle Gellar Prinze (née Gellar; born April 14 1977) is an American actress and producer.