Sarah Michelle Gellar “RINGER” Interview
By Abbie Bernstien

Sarah Michelle Gellar’s return to series TV in the CW’s RINGER was highly anticipated. For one thing, there’s the premise, crafted by show runners Eric C. Charmelo and Nicole Snyder. Rich Siobhan and poor Bridget, both played by Gellar, are twin sisters. Bridget, fleeing the Mob in the Midwest, accepts Siobhan’s invitation to visit her in Manhattan. However, when Siobhan apparently commits suicide, Bridget is cornered into pretending to be her sister, whose life comes with husband Andrew (Ioan Gruffudd), a teenaged stepdaughter - and lover Henry (Kristoffer Polaha), who is married to Siobhan’s best friend Gemma (Tara Summers). As if all this isn’t enough, it turns out that Siobhan is still alive and has set Bridget up to be murdered.

However, the other and perhaps more urgent reason RINGER drew so much attention is that Gellar’s last series regular gig was as the title heroine of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. Gellar’s seven years on the series - five on the WB, then two on UPN, the networks which merged together to form the CW - saw the rise of a passionate fandom that burst the confines of pop culture to spill over into the mainstream. It’s possible to find plenty of people who didn’t watch BUFFY when it was on, a bit harder to find folks who never caught up with it in ongoing syndication, DVD and/or continuing comic books, and very difficult to find someone who has never heard of BUFFY at all.
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