Sarah Michelle Gellar, known for her leading role in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, recently gave an interview where she talked about how women-led genre films tend to be highly criticized nowadays. She referred expressly to Marvel and stated:

“Every time a Marvel movie tries to do a female cast, it just gets torn apart… Unfortunately, audiences weren’t as accepting. There’s still this mentality of ‘the male superhero,’ this very backwards way of thinking.”

Gellar is accurate in her comment. Several female-led superhero projects have been criticized negatively even before their releases. Female superhero films such as DC’s Batgirl and Supergirl are also canceled more frequently. In Batgirl’s case, the studio decided to cancel it because they predicted it would be a Box office failure. However, they already had spent around 90 million on the film.

Gellar is convinced that women can succeed in the genre, and she is undoubtedly an excellent example. Buffy the Vampire Slayer had seven seasons that aired in 6 years. The actress is now back on television in a supernatural project entitled  Wolf Pack that is available on Paramount+. About coming back to a genre show, she said:

“it’s a really hard when you’ve done something like ‘Buffy…it’s not that I’ve avoided genre, it’s just that I can’t top that. So, it has to be either something that’s so different or equally good [as ‘Buffy’], or all of those things have to sort of come together. I love genre, but it has to fit.”

About the possibility of doing a Buffy-related project in the future, the actress said that she is “very proud of the show,” and she thinks that a reboot is something that does not need to be done. She is happy about the show’s closure.