Iconic doesn't even begin to describe this walk down fashion memory lane with Sarah Michelle Gellar. Ahead of her new series Wolf Pack, the actress gives us the scoop behind some of her most memorable on-screen looks from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cruel Intentions, Scooby-Doo, and more. Get your Buffy boots ready to go Behind The Looks!
Director: Stephanie Romero
Cinematography: Matt Burke
Video Editor: Collin Hughart
Producer: Ari Vega
Camera Operator: John Vogt
Sound Mixer: Jason Flaster
Associate Video Producer: Kellie Scott
Executive Director, Creative: Alexa Wiley
Executive Director, Entertainment: Jessica Baker
VP, Social: MacKenzie Green
Director: Stephanie Romero
Cinematography: Matt Burke
Video Editor: Collin Hughart
Producer: Ari Vega
Camera Operator: John Vogt
Sound Mixer: Jason Flaster
Associate Video Producer: Kellie Scott
Executive Director, Creative: Alexa Wiley
Executive Director, Entertainment: Jessica Baker
VP, Social: MacKenzie Green
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00:00Hi, I'm Sarah Michelle Gellar and today we're going Behind the Looks with Who, What, Where.
00:10Oh my gosh! That was I Know What You Did Last Summer which was my very first big feature film
00:18and Helen was from a small town that wanted to get out of her small town and had big
00:25New York dreams and her wardrobe reflected the fact that she had never been to New York City.
00:30It's really hard because you have to be able to run away from the bad guy but if your outfit says
00:35I'm about to run away from the bad guy then they know you're about to run away so usually you're
00:40in something that is not conducive to running away. In this instance it was a dress that she wore in a
00:48parade which was a green like a green satin that wrinkled a lot. It was my first experience
00:54ever with a leaning board which is basically what they give you on set so that you don't wrinkle
00:59and you don't sit down you just lean backwards it doesn't help at all and then the shoes were so
01:03bad that at some point I actually just lost the shoes in the fight sequence and ran barefoot
01:08through the streets of Wilmington North Carolina or Southport North Carolina actually. Well Buffy's
01:12costumes were a huge part of who she was and what she was experiencing at that moment. When you first
01:17meet her she's this traditional essential valley girl California girl that doesn't want the weight
01:24of the world on her shoulders and she dressed accordingly but as she accepted the power and
01:30the responsibility her outfit sort of progressed with that but Buffy was always fashionable I think
01:34it was one of the first real female heroines that you saw who did not sacrifice fashion for killing.
01:41The boots the Buffy boots we used to say when the boots went on you know the fighting was going to
01:47happen I still have a pair of those boots in my house that I still fit into but I was devastated
01:53because at one point I think for a big fashion spread I don't remember what it was but our costume
01:58designer sent one of the pairs of the original boots to be photographed and she never got them
02:02back and I was devastated because we didn't have that many of them and that was the iconic Buffy boot.
02:08What did I keep for my Buffy wardrobe? I wish I would have understood to keep more of it not that
02:12necessarily that was an option because the studios like to take it back but you don't realize the
02:17sentimental importance that you'd have on something like that later a lot of times at the end of an
02:21episode you're so sick of looking at an outfit that you don't always take it again if the option is
02:26available now I don't make that mistake anymore but I do have the boots still the dress in season one where
02:34Buffy gets killed for the first time was a copy of a dress that I won my Emmy in and I still have
02:41the original dress that it was the copy of I think I still have the jacket she wore in the last episode
02:47but I don't have a ton I wish I wish I had more oh I have a steak I have Mr. Pointy oh Scream 2
02:54that was just such a highlight for me getting to be part of that franchise I had just done the very
03:00first year of Buffy it hadn't even aired yet when I got cast in that movie and it was all of these
03:06icons at the time Courtney Cox and Neve Campbell and we just had a great time and that outfit
03:12actually thankfully was more conducive to being the girl that was killed in fact if I'm not mistaken
03:17I actually had sneakers and stretch pants and so that was amazing but I always remember in particular
03:23it's not fashion related but that scene with the phone which also is funny because now you look at
03:28that scene that phone is so ginormous but I remember that Wes Craven gave me one of the best acting
03:35tips it was just such a minor note but whenever you ask who it is when you're on a phone cell phone
03:40whatever you tend to look at it and say who is it which is such a weird thing because you can't
03:44see them I guess now you can see them but in those days it's a FaceTime and I always when I see that
03:48outfit I always think of that girl intentions Denise Wingate was our amazing costume designer and
03:54we had all of these ideas and she just made these visual dreams come true the corset the famous
04:01corset was built at a very famous Los Angeles shop called Trashy Lingerie which is pretty famous but
04:08they also do some of the most amazing intricate bodice corset costume work and I had never been in the
04:14store I was 20 years old I think and I remember the first time she told me we were going there I got all
04:20like blushy and shy and by like the third fitting I was like yeah I'm here and you become a member
04:26when you go there because I don't want people just coming in to sort of look and ogle the clothing but
04:31it's they really do amazing craftsmanship and that's where the corset came from and then the kissing scene
04:37in Central Park was another one of those odd visions that I had and I just I saw this big hat
04:44not quite breakfast at Tiffany's but like ginormous and they don't they're not very common and so we
04:50we called it the church hat and we had to go to a store that like specialized in Easter Sunday type
04:56outfits but then all the hats were blue and pink and it was it was definitely like we went all over Los
05:01Angeles to find like the perfect black hat for that scene but her costume was so specific and New York
05:07specific and it was a character in and of itself when I first saw the crucifix I just kept thinking
05:12it's so ginormous like first of all that's a lot of cocaine in that cross but I guess Catherine was
05:17very wealthy we can digress on that probably not appropriate but I just kept thinking can we make a
05:23smaller one because how do you make that fashion and it was the same thing we went through on Buffy with
05:27the cross because Angel gives her the cross in episode I think seven maybe of the first season and
05:33obviously I was going to be wearing this cross forever and it was just like made by a prop master
05:38and nothing against a prop master but like you want your costume designer to design something you're
05:42gonna have to wear it with every outfit and the thing is you know I have a tiny torso and the thing
05:46is like this big it felt like the Mr. T cross they both did Lisa Evans the costume designer from Scooby-Doo
05:55that was such a great costume experience again almost every costume in that movie in both films were built
06:02from scratch those boots were a copy of a pair of Louboutins that we loved but did not come in
06:09Daphne purple and were custom made to match the original Louboutin and I think they had purple
06:15undersoles also as an homage to the original shoe but those costumes were epic and the second one in
06:22the big opening sequence which was like Daphne's red carpet moment we made this feathered jacket and it
06:28was great in theory because we needed a coat because it was so cold we shot the second one
06:31in Vancouver in the winter but the feathers just kept going up my nose and if you watch some of
06:38the scenes you can see me kind of doing this when I'm speaking because I feathers all up my nose
06:43seeing my husband in an ascot ridiculous oh the grudge yes that was such an interesting experience
06:51because we did if I remember correctly all the costume designing and all the meetings in America and
06:57then everything had to be shipped out to Tokyo and a lot of it was dressing for warmth because we shot
07:04the movie in the winter and it gets very very cold in Tokyo but what I very much remember about that
07:10outfit in particular was that we wound up having to do some reshoots in the summer while Tokyo summers
07:16get very very warm and I was roasting and so I had this great idea that I would tape ice packs all over my body
07:23because I had a sweater like I had layers so they wouldn't see him and it would keep me cool which
07:28was great except then the ice would start to melt and it would like drip and fall and the sound people
07:33would pick it up on the mic so they very quickly took all my ice packs away Ringer that was such a fun
07:38fashion show when you're playing twins and you get to really create the characters and obviously one of
07:45the main ways to differentiate between the two sisters was their wardrobe but Siobhan was wealthy living in
07:50Paris we had some fun with that in fact people used to really like do full commentary on the outfits
07:56on that show do revenge that was such a great experience Jen Caten Robinson who was the director
08:02had a very specific vision for the entirety of the movie that went for fashion that went for costume
08:07design it was all a big aesthetic she even sat down with me to approve what the office would look like
08:15how the wardrobe would fit and that outfit may or may not be hanging in my closet currently
08:21did I have any advice on how to play bitchy iconic high school you know I think if you've been a female
08:26in high school you know how to be a bitchy high schooler whether you were one or not you experienced it
08:32my one costume from wolfpack this was a running joke because I think I literally wore my arson jacket not
08:41literally I think I actually wore my arson jacket through every episode and would change my tank top
08:47and my cargo pants and it was the greatest because I never had to take time out of my day for wardrobe
08:53fittings but Barbara Vasquez our costume designer is one of my favorite people on earth I absolutely love
08:59her so we made up for it with her shoes because you have never seen an arson investigator that wears
09:05Farragamos like my character like Kristen Ramsey does every boot shoe moment was its own world and
09:13it's also like like a a nice give back to my fans because it is a genre that I haven't been in a long
09:18time and you do sort of think about Buffy and the boots and this is my modern homage take to the Buffy
09:25boot she wears shorter boots they're ankle boots she has a Miu Miu pair a Chloe pair but I mean she's
09:32just an arson investigator in Los Angeles like she has some fashion sense thank you everyone this has
09:36been really fun reliving some of my favorite characters and their looks