Charisma Carpenter addressed hypothesis that her character, Cordelia Chase, will make an look within the upcoming Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot.
“I’m not within the reboot. I’m not within the pilot,” she mentioned by way of TikTok over the weekend. “I don’t even know if the present has been picked as much as go to sequence. I assume it is going to be.”
The actress additionally shut down assumptions that her “The Bitch Is Again” podcast title meant she was planning to be within the reboot.
“It was not supposed to sound decoded in any type of method, alluding to the truth that I used to be admitting to being within the reboot,” Carpenter defined. “Individuals had been additionally then commenting, ‘Oh is that this… Are you saying?’ prefer it was an easter egg à la Taylor Swift. Under no circumstances.”
Carpenter concluded: “I’ve not had a dialog with any of the powers that be to incorporate Cordelia at this level.”
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which aired from 1997 to 2003, adopted Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar), as a highschool pupil who additionally occurred to be answerable for saving the world from vampires and demons. Carpenter, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Stewart Head, David Boreanaz and James Marsters made up the remainder of the forged. The brand new present, which is at the moment filming, stars Kiera Armstrong as the most recent Chosen One whereas Gellar, 48, will make appearances as Buffy.
Carpenter reprised her position within the Buffy spinoff, Angel, earlier than Cordelia’s loss of life on season 5. She later opened up about her tumultuous expertise behind the scenes, changing into the primary of a number of stars who got here ahead to accuse Buffy showrunner Joss Whedon of abusing his energy and exhibiting “hostile and poisonous” habits. (Whedon, 61, has beforehand denied allegations towards him,)
Extra just lately, Carpenter revisited the Buffy universe with Audible’s “Slayers: A Buffyverse Story” podcast.
“[I had] little little bit of apprehension after I first was requested to hitch, however these feelings and emotions, open wound emotions had been instantly assuaged by Amber [Benson]’s pitch in that I heard her enthusiasm,” Carpenter completely advised Us Weekly in October 2023.
Carpenter mentioned she was excited to painting Cordelia once more.
“It’s private for me. I’ve lived with Cordelia,” Carpenter continued. “I carried out her for about 10 years of my life, and I really feel she, as a personality, knowledgeable me, the lady that performed her. It’s wealthy to me. The concept of coming into my very own energy as a younger girl via a personality that then I ended up utilizing that energy in a technique to converse out towards the creator of that energy. … What I imply to say is that in lots of methods, Cordelia gave start to Charisma and actually knowledgeable who I’m at present, and it was so highly effective that I used to be capable of do very arduous issues at a really vital time in my life. And I believe that’s the final Buffyverse story — discovering out what your objective is and utilizing it to make the world a greater place.”
Carpenter labored on the short-lived undertaking with Marsters, 62, Emma Caulfield, Juliet Landau and Amber Benson earlier than it was canceled by Disney.
