Chris Connelly: Sarah Michelle Gellar has become Hollywood's girl with the most kick. Kick starting her movie career with roles in "Scream 2" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer," for which she is up for Breakthrough Performance tonight, all while kicking undead butt on "Buffy The Vampire Slayer." With two movies set for this summer before "Buffy" returns, Gellar's not even getting a day off.
Chris: A TV show is just an enormous grind and then you hop right into a movie because this is your shot to make one or two. What's that like for you? How do you make sure you keep your strength up?
SMG: Oh, a lotta drugs. Oh I am totally kidding. I really have to watch my mouth. Um, such a joke. This will be edited.
Connelly Getting to do the work that I've had in the last two years has been such incentive to me. I wrapped "Buffy". The day I finished "Buffy", I started here the next day. I take this to New York and the day after I finish this in New York, I start my next movie in New York. The night I finish that, I take the red-eye back to LA to start "Buffy".
Chris: While Gellar may be a burgeoning sex symbol, she remains hypercritical of her own appearance.
SMG: To go to a newstand and see yourself like that, you can't help but pick yourself apart. And that's one of the main reasons I don't watch "Buffy" ..is because I know I'd be so hard on myself.
Chris:
How terrifying was the outfit you wore on the cover of the magazine?
SMG: I cried like through the whole photo shoot. I can't wear this ... what will my mother say?
Chris: More disturbing to Gellar, the large amount of sites on the internet claiming to offer nude photos of her.
SMG: The whole nude picture thing is really odd.
Chris: Now we should make clear, you've never..you've never taken any naked pictures.
SMG: No, they're all super-imposed and I don't understand how that's not illegal.
Chris: While Gellar's been in show business for more than a decade, she said counsel from another TV actress turned "Scream" star helped her withstand the spotlight of fame.
SMG: I got lucky working with, uh, Neve Campbell last summer because Neve was sorta like two years ahead of me. And it was wonderful to have her to talk to at that point because she sort of explained things to me. And the main thing is, you just have to stay true to yourself. If anything I've become more grounded and more sane and more stay at home than before.
Chris: On your 21st birthday, were you out? Did you party like anyone else would be on their 21st birthday?
SMG: Actually I had an amazing 21st birthday. My first day on the movie was the next day so I'm not gonna go out. To me, I don't understand the whole 21 go out and get trashed. That's not fun. All you wake up with is a really bad hangover and some really puffy eyes. We spent the day at Disneyland. We got everyone's dream tour of Disneyland and we got "cut the line" passes for my birthday.
Chris: Do you ever feel like, boy I really miss that really wild and crazy period that my friends who are 17 and 18 got to go through?
SMG: I went through my wild phase. I mean, I had it. I went through it when I was about 15. You go through it earlier when you live in New York. I lead a great life. I'd be envious of someone who had my life..and what's a normal 21 year old? Getting drunk? Going to a party? I can do that. I look at my life and it's like, I got David Boreanaz during the year and in the summer I got Ryan Phillipe and Sean Patrick Flannery. I like my life. There's nothing wrong with my life.
Chris: And her newest movie is indeed titled "Cruel Intentions." It's "Dangerous Liasons" set in a New York City High School.