People Who Worked for Celebrities Share Their Most Surprising Stories

According to an extra who worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sarah Michelle Gellar made her boundaries loudly clear on set. She reportedly yelled that she didn’t want extras looking at her while a scene was being filmed.

For background actors, that instruction felt confusing and humiliating, since observing the scene was part of the job. The moment clashed sharply with the show’s ensemble spirit, leaving extras with the sense that hierarchy mattered more than basic courtesy.