Sarah Michelle Gellar would love to reprise her Sex And The City cameo, even if it means a 5 A.M. shoot
"I was delirious doing that scene, but I was also deliriously excited," Gellar recalls of filming an early-morning cameo in Los Angeles for SATC's third season
Early bird gets the HBO cameo! According to Sarah Michelle Gellar, nabbing a long-desired guest slot on Sex And The City in 2000 involved a 5 A.M. shoot following a 10 P.M. call time— and she’d happily do it again on season 2 of HBO’s revival And Just Like That….
“I feel like the [development] girl, which is what she was then, is probably running a studio and maybe she has a place to come back,” Gellar tells Entertainment Tonight.
In a third season episode of Sex And The City titled “Escape From New York,” Gellar played Debbie, a breakneck Hollywood junior development executive interested in turning Carrie’s (Sarah Jessica Parker) columns into a major motion picture. Per Gellar, she had wanted to be a part of SATC for a long time, but hadn’t been able to carve out time in her rigorous Buffy The Vampire Slayer filming schedule.
“I was desperate to be on it and [creator] Darren [Starr] had written me a couple roles and I couldn’t get out of Buffy to film and I was really upset,” Gellar explains.
As the title duly hints, the stars aligned for Gellar when “Escape From New York” came along—SATC filming finally came to her doorstep in Los Angeles, and Debbie was born.
“I had a 10 p.m. call time for Sex and the City, and I said, ‘Are you gonna get to me?’ because I had been working since five in the morning,” Gellar shares. “He said, ‘We’re gonna get to you, we’re gonna get to you.’ I got there at 10 p.m. They got to me at 5 a.m. or 4:30 a.m. the next day, so I was delirious doing that scene, but I was also deliriously excited.”
Although Gellar doesn’t confirm or deny a Debbiessaince, she happily takes SATC’s creator (warmly) to task over the question. After thoroughly gushing over the character, she concludes: “Michael Patrick King, are you listening?”