It’s a good day at the office when you get to meet your teenage hero. I’m yet to break bread with Madonna, or spend quality time with George Michael, but I did get to meet Sarah Michelle Gellar on a fine Sydney morning. Sarah Michelle Gellar was in town as the ambassador for Specsavers Spectacle Wearer of the Year 2014.
A picture of glowing-good health, and with absolutely no Hollywood airs and graces this fun, super successful icon is as warm and relaxed as we had hoped. I was lucky enough to be able to ask all the questions that have been burning a hole in my mind for a good fifteen years.
Watch the full interview and see her thoughts on everything from relationships, work-life balance, Buffy and the inspiring quote she lives by.
“I don’t know how to be anything but myself,” on staying true to herself in Hollywood. “At the same time I’m just a regular person doing a job, it’s when you forget that that it gets a little out of hand”
“I like to think of myself as a person first and an actor second.”
On motherhood: “Anyone who tells you you can have it all is lying, it’s impossible. It’s a struggle every day – it takes a village. I’m very fortunate that I have incredible extended family and friends that help out.”
“Like every other working mother there are days where you are torn…”
On relationships: “If your planning sunshine it’s going to rain, and I think it’s being able to go with the flow and being able to take the knocks in stride.”
On playing kick-arse female characters: “Even with Cruel Intentions at the time nobody wanted to do that movie, and I was so adamant because I loved it and I thought, ‘Why don’t they make smart dramas for young people? Why is it always silly and fluffy…”
Watch the full interview below: