15 years ago, Sarah Michelle Gellar faced down a danger that would scare off even the most fearless of slayers. In The Grudge, a remake of the 2002 Japanese horror film Ju-on, the actress starred as Karen Davis, an American social worker new to Tokyo who begins work as a caretaker for an elderly woman living in a house literally haunted by its gruesome past. it was an important role for Gellar, having just wrapped Buffy the Vampire Slayer after seven seasons and fulfilled her two-film contract as Daphne in the live-action Scooby-Doo franchise. "I was on this hit show. I had this amazing character. I had an obligation to a second Scooby movie. And then it was time for me to go, 'Ok, what do I want to...
- 10/22/2019
- E! Online
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