Sarah Michelle Gellar has spoken candidly about her first legal battle at a young age.
The iconic screen goddess found herself in the middle of the fast food war at age five when she appeared in a Burger King ad campaign in 1981. She reminisced about the moment during a recent media conversation that also contained details about her finding out how the fast-food giant made their burgers look so inviting.
Sarah Michelle Gellar Now Finds Her Legal Battle At Age Five Funny
Although she is now 45 years old, Gellar will never forget the time Burger King sued her and her ad agency in the ’80s. The titular character in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” reflected on the moment while watching a clip of herself in the famous chain of hamburger fast food restaurants ad.
“This is really funny. This big campaign that I did for Burger King, and I was five,” Gellar recounted during her chat with BuzzFeed UK’s Ada Enechi. Adding more details, the “Scooby-Doo” star stated:
“I was the first person to say another competitor’s name in a job. And so, McDonald’s turned around, sued the advertising agency, Burger King, and me at five.”
Gellar had also admitted in a 2004 interview that while “banned is a strong word,” she was not permitted to eat at McDonald’s during the food war. Despite that legal snag, the one thing that stood out for the Daytime Emmy Awards winner was her craving for fast food, even though she admitted to not eating much of it when she was younger. She said to Enechi:
“When we were there, I just wanted a burger. I was so excited because my mom said I could have the burger.”
Another thing that stood out for the “Masters of the Universe: Revelation” actress was discovering how Burger King made their signature staple look so delicious in ads. She said she learned that they “glue each seed on it to make it look all perfect and beautiful, then they shellac it, and they paint it,” making her conclude that “TV is not real.”
Since her time in the campaign, Gellar has overcome quite a few career obstacles, including working with an “extremely toxic male cast.” Last December, The Blast shared that the breast cancer awareness advocate divulged details of the aforementioned cast during an appearance at a seminar last year. In her words:
“For so long, I was on a set that I think was known for being an extremely toxic male set, and so that was ingrained in my head that that was what all sets were like and that women were pitted against each other — that if women became friends, then we became too powerful, so you had to keep that down.”
She soon realized “how easy an experience it can be” after she got the opportunity to work with many other women and men that supported women as well. “Unfortunately, we’re still in that place where all of those departments, a lot of times, need to be women for us to have a voice,” Gellar said.
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In July 2022, The Blast noted that Gellar has returned to fans’ screens in the new Paramount+ series, “Wolf Pack.” The supernatural teen drama, which writer Jeff Davis created, is centered around the werewolves in Edo van Belkom’s 2004 book of the same name.
Speaking on Gellar’s involvement with the series as part of a Comic-Con panel, Davis disclosed, “Everyone knows that “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” was a huge influence on “Teen Wolf,” so I always thought it would be amazing if we could bring Sarah Michelle Gellar back to a horror show.”
The actress soon joined Davis and the other panelists — Tyler Hoechlin and Tyler Posey, joking that she would change her name to “Tyler Michelle” to blend in with them. Gellar then shared:
“Everything these guys have been saying about family and the atmosphere of Jeff’s show is really true. I hope you guys come join us.”
“Wolf Pack” premiered on January 26, and it stars Armani Jackson (Everett), Bella Shepard (Blake), Tyler Lawrence Gray (Harlan), and Chloe Rose Robertson (Luna), with Gellar also sitting in the executive producer’s chair.
