The pair both began their careers in the world of film and TV at very young ages in the 1980s and have gone on to appear in a some of the most beloved franchises of all time, most notably Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Lord of the Rings, respectively.
To mark the release, Radio Times spoke to the pair for our Film Flashbacks series – discussing everything from their very first film memories to some of the key turning points in their career.
You can check out the full interview below.
Sarah Michelle Gellar: My first film was ET. The same weekend, I saw Snow White – the animated film – and I saw ET. So just both great films. I saw Drew Barrymore and was like, 'I want to do that!'
SMG: Oh, my God, didn't you want one of those? I used to beg for a Mogwai.
EW: Oh, yeah. Mogwais are the coolest. I loved Gizmo. Loved that film. And then a big formative seeing it in the cinema experience for me was Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade at the Chinese Theater with my mom. It was amazing.
SMG: I have a funny story. My first job ever, my first big movie, was filmed in Shelter Island in the winter. People don't really go to Shelter Island in the winter because the snow was so big. The snow drifts were so big and I was so tiny, they hired a person whose job it was to carry me from set to set, because they were afraid that I was gonna get lost in the snow. True story!
SMG: What?
SMG: My world has just been changed. My world is forever changed.
SMG: I can't... this whole interview is over for me, because I'm just going to be playing the scene.... there's so much going on in my head right now.
We're hear to speak about a horror film – so what are your early memories of watching horror films? Do you remember a film that – maybe when you were younger, maybe when you were a bit older – really scared you?
So I was exposed to horror at like six or seven years of age. A formative memory from that era was Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, which to this day is one of my favorite horror films, and I think my favorite Nightmare on Elm Street film.
And my kids were so excited they were gonna invite their friends – they were like, five and seven or whatever – to the big movie studio to see a movie months before it came out. And my poor kids didn't have any friends that would come because none of them were ready to see those horror movies! They were too scared. So luckily, my kids appreciated horror at a young age... now their friends obviously will see them!
View Green Video on the source websiteSMG: I think that's every movie. I think that I take... I learn things on each job, not just from actors. From crew members, from a production designer... And if you're not constantly learning from these people, then you're missing out.
Like a lot of actors go, 'Our job is just to show up and hit the mark and say our lines,' and it's like... no! If we go out of order in our lines, the person moving the boom doesn't know how to go, and then they shadow us, right? And so I think you're always continually learning and evolving and taking from everybody.
To add to that, in terms of my own personal experience, a game changer moment – from having started when I was eight and carried on through my whole life – there was a movie called The Ice Storm that Ang Lee directed that really felt like a kind of dividing line between my work as a child and work as an adult.
And I was asked to engage in that process as an actor in a way that I'd never before. And so that really felt like a significant sort of twist... of like a turn of the page, if you will. Like a new realm.
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