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Sarah Michelle Gellar finds life after TV in big- screen remake of The Grudge Escaped fan crush while filming in Japan, but missed Freddy,
Sarah Michelle Gellar is taking steps to simplify her life.
"I finally got e-mail so that I don't have everybody calling me all the time on my cellphone," she says, curling up on a crème coloured sofa at the Four Seasons hotel. "Especially with the phone bills from Tokyo!"
Gellar, known best to TV fans as the star of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, spent three months in Japan last spring filming The Grudge, director Takashi Shimizu's American remake of his own Japanese 2003 horror flick Ju-On: The Grudge. It opens Friday.
She kept in touch with friends and family in the States by sending back three photos each day over the Internet. "It became infectious," she says. "The assistant director started doing a picture of the day and sending it back to his family as well. And we would trade pictures at night."
At the top of her electronic address book was husband Freddy Prinze, Jr. The couple married under the threat of a huge tropical thunderstorm in Jalisco, Mexico on Sept. 1, 2002 and have appeared together in three movies, including I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scooby Doo.
Prinze is currently in New York City filming the new drama Nailed Right In with Johnny Depp and Mena Suvari. "As soon as I finish my three weeks straight of promoting The Grudge, I am going to sit on the set with him and relax and be the wife for a little bit."
But that didn't mean Prinze, 28, got to make the trip to the Pacific Rim during filming of Gellar's movie. "I made sure to make him feel bad about it," she says (tongue-in-cheek, of course). "Freddy kept joking with me that if I didn't bring him back a Samurai sword, not to come home."
Naturally, she obliged.
The time apart "only makes you appreciate a partner more," says Gellar, who shacked up with co-stars Jason Behr and Clea DuVall in Tokyo's Oakwood corporate apartments during the shoot. There was only one small problem: "My suitcase wouldn't fit in the apartment. So I had to unpack all of my clothing in the hallway. Jason had to do the same thing."
Luckily, no one seemed to notice. When Gellar arrived in Japan, Buffy had just begun to run on local television. And those who did recognize the rail-thin bottle blonde showed a different type of respect: "People there don't slip a wad of toilet paper under the stall and say, `Here, sign this.' Or put a phone to your ear and go, `Talk to my cousin.'"
Credit such experiences at home to a rabid fan base that has helped Gellar enjoy a rare 20-year career in show business. She was discovered, the story goes, by a talent agent at age four, while eating at a New York City restaurant.
The following year, she appeared in a now-infamous commercial for Burger King and was subsequently sued by and banned from eating at rival McDonalds.
"It was tough because, when you're a little kid, McDonald's is where all your friends have their birthday parties," she said in one recent interview. "So I missed out on a lot of apple pies."
No worries. Within three years, Gellar landed a guest spot on Spencer: For Hire.
That led to hosting duties on the short lived TV gabfest GirlTalk, and eventually a three-year stint on the popular daytime drama All My Children.
She earned an Emmy in 1994 for the role of Kendall Hart Lange Henry (Susan Lucci's daughter), but was not impressed by the ceremony.
"It was the most anticlimactic experience of my life," she says.
Today, the gold statue sits in the Los Angeles home she shares with Prinze, their Maltese terrier Thor, and the Akita named Tyson. But it is overshadowed by the Orange blimp she won at the 2002 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.
"Those kids voting ... that was special to me. Those are the people I work for."
And as for having kids of her own one day? Gellar's best advice is don't hold your breath.
"I am not ready to start a family right now," she admits. "I think that is an incredibly personal decision between two people and when the time is right, the time is right. I am 27 years old. If my biological clock was ticking that badly, then our society has a more serious problem than I originally thought."
Source: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...geid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1098051010032
Sarah Michelle Gellar is taking steps to simplify her life.
"I finally got e-mail so that I don't have everybody calling me all the time on my cellphone," she says, curling up on a crème coloured sofa at the Four Seasons hotel. "Especially with the phone bills from Tokyo!"
Gellar, known best to TV fans as the star of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, spent three months in Japan last spring filming The Grudge, director Takashi Shimizu's American remake of his own Japanese 2003 horror flick Ju-On: The Grudge. It opens Friday.
She kept in touch with friends and family in the States by sending back three photos each day over the Internet. "It became infectious," she says. "The assistant director started doing a picture of the day and sending it back to his family as well. And we would trade pictures at night."
At the top of her electronic address book was husband Freddy Prinze, Jr. The couple married under the threat of a huge tropical thunderstorm in Jalisco, Mexico on Sept. 1, 2002 and have appeared together in three movies, including I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scooby Doo.
Prinze is currently in New York City filming the new drama Nailed Right In with Johnny Depp and Mena Suvari. "As soon as I finish my three weeks straight of promoting The Grudge, I am going to sit on the set with him and relax and be the wife for a little bit."
But that didn't mean Prinze, 28, got to make the trip to the Pacific Rim during filming of Gellar's movie. "I made sure to make him feel bad about it," she says (tongue-in-cheek, of course). "Freddy kept joking with me that if I didn't bring him back a Samurai sword, not to come home."
Naturally, she obliged.
The time apart "only makes you appreciate a partner more," says Gellar, who shacked up with co-stars Jason Behr and Clea DuVall in Tokyo's Oakwood corporate apartments during the shoot. There was only one small problem: "My suitcase wouldn't fit in the apartment. So I had to unpack all of my clothing in the hallway. Jason had to do the same thing."
Luckily, no one seemed to notice. When Gellar arrived in Japan, Buffy had just begun to run on local television. And those who did recognize the rail-thin bottle blonde showed a different type of respect: "People there don't slip a wad of toilet paper under the stall and say, `Here, sign this.' Or put a phone to your ear and go, `Talk to my cousin.'"
Credit such experiences at home to a rabid fan base that has helped Gellar enjoy a rare 20-year career in show business. She was discovered, the story goes, by a talent agent at age four, while eating at a New York City restaurant.
The following year, she appeared in a now-infamous commercial for Burger King and was subsequently sued by and banned from eating at rival McDonalds.
"It was tough because, when you're a little kid, McDonald's is where all your friends have their birthday parties," she said in one recent interview. "So I missed out on a lot of apple pies."
No worries. Within three years, Gellar landed a guest spot on Spencer: For Hire.
That led to hosting duties on the short lived TV gabfest GirlTalk, and eventually a three-year stint on the popular daytime drama All My Children.
She earned an Emmy in 1994 for the role of Kendall Hart Lange Henry (Susan Lucci's daughter), but was not impressed by the ceremony.
"It was the most anticlimactic experience of my life," she says.
Today, the gold statue sits in the Los Angeles home she shares with Prinze, their Maltese terrier Thor, and the Akita named Tyson. But it is overshadowed by the Orange blimp she won at the 2002 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.
"Those kids voting ... that was special to me. Those are the people I work for."
And as for having kids of her own one day? Gellar's best advice is don't hold your breath.
"I am not ready to start a family right now," she admits. "I think that is an incredibly personal decision between two people and when the time is right, the time is right. I am 27 years old. If my biological clock was ticking that badly, then our society has a more serious problem than I originally thought."
Source: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...geid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1098051010032