NEED TO KNOW
- Charisma Carpenter addressed rumors that she is going to return for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot in a TikTok video shared on Saturday, Aug. 16
- She revealed that she has “not had a dialog with any of the powers that be” to return for the reboot
- The actress notably performed Cordelia Chase within the authentic WB present and its spinoff collection, Angel
Charisma Carpenter is setting the document straight on whether or not she’ll return for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot.
The 55-year-old actress, who starred as Cordelia Chase within the hit WB present and its spinoff collection, Angel, revealed in a brand new TikTok video that her common character is not going to be returning onscreen — so far as she is aware of.
“I’m not within the reboot. I’m not within the pilot. I don’t even know if the present has been picked as much as go to collection. I assume it is going to be,” Carpenter stated within the video, posted on Saturday, Aug. 16.
She additionally famous that followers had been commenting on whether or not the identify of her podcast, The Bitch Is Again, was alluding to her returning to the present. Nevertheless, she denied that was the case.
“It was not meant to sound decoded in any type of method, alluding to the truth that I used to be admitting to being within the reboot,” she defined. “Individuals had been additionally then commenting, ‘Oh is that this… Are you saying?’ prefer it was an easter egg à la Taylor Swift. In no way.”
“I’ve not had a dialog with any of the powers that be to incorporate Cordelia at this level,” she added.
Carpenter’s TikTok video got here per week after Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar was photographed on the Los Angeles set of the present’s reboot on Aug. 7. She’s going to star alongside Kiera Armstrong, who’s the most recent Chosen One.
ipromiseyoumedia confirmed in February {that a} new Buffy collection was within the works at Hulu that might star Gellar and be government produced by Oscar winner Chloé Zhao. Nora and Lila Zuckerman are additionally writing, showrunning and government producing.
Whereas Carpenter isn’t confirmed for the brand new collection, she has revisited the Buffy the Vampire Slayer world lately with Slayers: A Buffyverse Story, an Audible podcast that noticed her character Cordelia tackle the position of the slayer alongside Indira (performed by Laya DeLeon Hayes).
Different Buffy stars returned to voice their common characters, together with James Marsters as Spike, Emma Caulfield Ford as Anya, Juliet Landau as Drusilla and Amber Benson as Tara. Benson additionally co-wrote the collection.
Nevertheless, the collection was canceled when Disney refused to permit Audible to provide future seasons. Co-writer Christopher Golden shared on X in February 2024 that they had been supplied no “clarification” for the cancellation from Disney.
