What happened to Sarah Michelle Gellar's career?
I've just rewatched 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' and remember thinking that SMG used to be massive as an actress. She was the ultimate scream queen.
I always thought after the success of Buffy, that she would transcend into a big movie star but what actually happened to her career? She seemed to disappear quickly off the radar. Was it to have a family?
I also thought that Ringer would be a return to form, and personally I loved Ringer and it should have been renewed for a second series.
What's your favourite SMG movies?
I always thought after the success of Buffy, that she would transcend into a big movie star but what actually happened to her career? She seemed to disappear quickly off the radar. Was it to have a family?
I also thought that Ringer would be a return to form, and personally I loved Ringer and it should have been renewed for a second series.
What's your favourite SMG movies?
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Not sure why you think a scream queen would develop into a top actress?
I take it you never watched Buffy then?
When you think of some of the people she shared a screen with in those days, many of them have gone on to bigger and better things, so it's not the stupidest question in the world to ask - the likes of Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Phillipe, Selma Blair and Isla Fisher are all enjoying, relatively speaking, faar more successful careers.
Hell, even Jennifer Love Hewitt managed to score a Golden Globes nomination, and SMG is a faaar better actress than she is.
I guess it just came down to choosing bad projects really, in my mind she could have had a career similar to Naomi Watts in terms of transitioning from Scream Queen to legitimate actress, but she just picked the wrong roles. Glad to see her back on tv though, I think she did pretty good work in Ringer and I'm excited for The Crazy Ones!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz-8JoUQzE0
she made bad choices i think. actually IKWYDLS.. i thought both she and JLH were really good in it. their characters both had a little more depth than you find in teen horrors.
there was a tremendous amount of goodwill towards SMG when she left buffy. i remember going to see the grudge and it was packed with her fans
Scream queen? She hasn't starred in that much horror.
She does have the upcoming TV series The Crazy Ones, though the appeal for a lot of people is going to be Robin Williams more than anyone.
2)Well when was she ever BIG big? We aren't talking Demi Moore levels of movie roles, then falling off the face of the planet.
3)As said she had hits in younger or teen orientated films - literally nothing else. Not a problem at all but doesn't cut it at 36. That said, sticking with horror would have been fine and she certainly tried, but every choice was a bad one. Not her fault.
Has anyone seen The Return? Quite possibly the most boring film of all time, and when you've paid to see it at the cinema, it's just shocking how dreary it is. Of course it bombed. Should've been straight to DVD and clearly many of her stuff evidently is. Some sound interesting and she's had a good response in (Veronika Decides To Die, though I've not seen it) but the more flop films you're in, the less likely you are to get the roles, and coupled with the age thing in that she never managed to transcend the teen films successfully, it's no wonder she went back to TV - which is no bad thing.
However, she is AMAZING in Cruel Intentions, though it hardly requires top notch acting, but she fit the role perfectly, and likewise in "I Know What You Did Last Summer" where she also for me still has the best death scene (because it's so drawn out and you're willing her to survive) in any slasher film.
So yeah, I'm very fond, but it's easy to see how she's barely seen now..
Jamie Lee Curtis is the ultimate Scream queen and her career hardly flopped outside of the horror genre.
That's a bit harsh. She is still persuing a career, so your comment doesn't really make sense. The OP is just wondering why she hasn't had the success she deserves.