00:00Buffy the Vampire Slayer is back and this time she's passing the stake.
00:04Star Wars Skeleton Crew actress Ryan Keira Armstrong will be the new face of the Slayer
00:08in Hulu's upcoming Buffy reboot. Don't worry, fans will still get to see Sarah Michelle Gellar
00:14reprise her role as Buffy Summers in this new series. Gellar, who's also an executive producer
00:19on the reboot, breaks the casting news to Armstrong in a recent video posted on Instagram on Thursday.
00:24I just wanted to ask you and I wanted to make sure that you were okay with
00:27Hey. How do you feel about helping me save the world? Good. You want to be my chosen one?
00:34Gellar also wrote in the caption, from the moment I saw Ryan's audition, I knew there was only one
00:39girl that I wanted by my side. To have that kind of emotional intelligence and talent at such a young
00:44age is truly a gift. The bonus is that her smile lights up even the darkest room. While she'll be
00:49playing a new Slayer, other details on Armstrong's role and the show itself are being kept under wraps.
00:54Buffy's final season in 2002 to 2003 did away with the idea of only one Slayer could exist at a time,
01:01bringing in a host of potential Slayers as part of the show's endgame. Gellar may have offered up
01:06one detail in the Instagram video with Armstrong. I'm so excited. Welcome to New Sunnydale.
01:12Telling her new co-star, Welcome to New Sunnydale, the town where most of the original series took place,
01:17was obliterated in the series finale, leaving a giant crater. So New Sunnydale could suggest a rebuilt city.
01:24For more updates on this story, be sure to head over to thehollywoodreporter.com. This is The Hollywood Reporter News.
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