Sarah Michelle Gellar blames adjustments in societal values for the decline of long-lasting relationships.
In September, the 47-year-old actress and Freddie Prinze Jr., 48, who share two kids, celebrated their twenty second wedding ceremony anniversary.
Throughout an interview with Fox Information Digital, alongside her “Dexter: Original Sin” co-star Patrick Gibson, Gellar mirrored on the secrets and techniques to an everlasting marriage.
“I think everything takes work in you, whether it’s a friendship or a work relationship or a marriage,” the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star mentioned.
“You have to put the work in,” she continued. “And we live in an extremely disposable society now.”
“Your phone breaks, you don’t fix it. You get a new one,” Gellar added. “And I think that’s a lot of the attitude toward relationships.”
“And I don’t know, maybe separate bathrooms,” the actress joked.
Gellar and Prinze Jr. first met whereas filming the hit 1997 horror film “I Know What You Did Last Summer” and commenced relationship in 2000.
The couple introduced their engagement in 2001 and tied the knot a 12 months later in Mexico when Gellar was 24 and Prinze was 26.
Forward of their nuptials, Prinze Jr. made an look on “The Howard Stern Show,” throughout which the shock jock waged a million-dollar guess that their marriage wouldn’t go the space.
“So you’re going to marry Sarah Michelle Gellar, even though you know that won’t last?” Stern requested.
“Oh, absolutely it will last,” Prinze Jr. replied.
“I wanna make a written bet with you,” the radio host instructed him. “In about 10 years, you’re gonna hunt me down and go, ‘Howard, I owe you money.’”
On their twentieth wedding ceremony anniversary, Gellar uploaded screenshots of the interview on her Instagram Story.
“@SternShow, I think you owe us,” she wrote, through Us Weekly.
Prinze Jr. later shared Gellar’s publish on his Instagram Story and wrote, “She will not forget” together with two laugh-crying emojis.
Throughout a 2019 interview with Us Weekly, Gellar instructed the outlet that “communication” was key to their profitable marriage.
“It’s about being present,” the New York native mentioned. “Listening is the most important thing.”
“We still make each other laugh. And we treat each other with respect,” added Prinze Jr., who famous that after the pair shared their first kiss he “didn’t go on another date.”
“It was just Sarah,” he gushed to the journal.
The couple, who additionally co-starred in 2002’s “Scooby-Doo” and the 2004 sequel “Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed,” welcomed their first baby, daughter Charlotte Grace, in 2009.
In 2012, Gellar gave start to their son, Rocky James.
Gellar and Prinze Jr. each first rose to fame within the Nineteen Nineties, they usually turned two of the period’s largest stars.
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Whereas talking with Fox Information Digital, Gellar shared her ideas on how celeb life within the ’90s differed from that of right now.
“I would say the advent of social media and everybody having a camera phone,” she mentioned. “I think you had a lot more anonymity, which at times I think makes storytelling a little bit easier because people didn’t know so much about your every move or even your show.”
“It’s hard to keep things spoiler-free,” Gellar added. “It moves shows more indoors when you have to keep secrets.”
The actress is starring within the new Showtime sequence “Dexter: Original Sin,” which premiered on Dec. 13.
“Dexter: Original Sin” is a prequel sequence to the community’s hit serial killer present “Dexter,” which starred Michael C. Corridor within the titular position and ran for eight seasons from 2006 to 2013.
The plot synopsis for “Dexter: Original Sin” reads, “Set in 1991 Miami, “Dexter: Original Sin” follows Dexter (Gibson) as he transitions from pupil to avenging serial killer.
When his bloodthirsty urges can’t be ignored any longer, Dexter should study to channel his interior darkness.”
“With the steerage of his father, Harry (Christian Slater), he adopts a Code designed to assist him discover and kill individuals who need to be eradicated from society with out getting on legislation enforcement’s radar.
This can be a explicit problem for younger Dexter as he begins a forensics internship on the Miami Metro Police Division.”
Gellar is enjoying Dexter’s new boss, Tanya Martin, the CSI chief on the Miami Metro Police Division.
The present additionally stars Corridor because the narrator, in addition to Patrick Dempsey, Christina Milian, Alex Shimizu, Reno Wilson and James Martinez.
Throughout her interview with Fox Information Digital, Gellar expressed her pleasure over becoming a member of the forged of the prequel sequence, sharing that she was a giant fan of “Dexter.”
“I loved the original,” she mentioned. “And I never obviously got a chance to be a part of it. So in your head, you think, ‘That’s too bad. It would have been fun to be part of that canon.”
Gellar continued, “And so then for it to come around again and be like, ‘Wait, I get the opportunity to be part of a show that I loved?’ [it] becomes a dream opportunity.”
Gibson instructed Fox Information Digital that he “had so much fun” enjoying Dexter as a younger man and portraying his journey.
“The Dexter that we all know is pretty fully formed by the time we pick up in season one of the original,” he famous. “So getting to play someone at that phase in their life — I know I was very awkward at that time in my life.”
“You’re kind of like one foot as a teenager, one foot as an adult,” Gibson added. “Adults don’t take you seriously.”
“You don’t fit in with the people,” the actress agreed.
“You’re also not a kid,” Gibson mentioned. “And you’re also experiencing a lot of these firsts. In this case, it just happens to be murdering people.”
“Hey, we all have firsts,” Gellar mentioned.
“And you always remember your first time,” Gibson mentioned. “It isn’t always the best.”
The 29-year-old actor beforehand starred within the TV sequence “The Tudors,” “The OA” and “Shadow and Bone” amongst different roles.
Whereas talking with Fox Information Digital, Gibson famous that “there were a lot of unique challenges” in enjoying a personality who was already so acquainted to audiences.
“Partly there was keeping the continuity with what Michael did,” he mentioned. “The thing that I loved about Michael’s performance was that when you meet him, there’s so much of himself in that role.”
Gibson continued, “It was finding a balance of the two because obviously just doing an impression would be a little cold even for a psychopath.”
“But then it was also just like remembering that,” he added. “I think we’re trained as actors to be empathetic on set. And you’re working with some of the best actors ever.”
“And like to remind yourself you can’t be too affected by the situations that are going on and you are a lot more calculated than you might appear. That was a bit of a challenge.”
New episodes of “Dexter: Original Sin” will air on Showtime each Friday till Feb. 14.
