
Sarah Michelle Gellar says she loved the way Buffy the Vampire Slayer's monsters were a metaphor for the "horrors of adolescence".
Buffy Summers is perhaps one if not the most iconic female heroes of the late 1990s. Speaking during a masterclass at the Canneseries festival, which she attended to receive the Canal+ Icon Award, the star addressed her role on a TV show that was not only about teenagers fighting monsters but mostly about adolescents finding themselves.