Sarah Michelle Gellar on Why the Buffy Reboot is Especially ‘Timely’

glamour.com:

has signed on to reboot her beloved character, , in a new series for Hulu.In short—fans freaked out, immediately cheering that their favorite vampire slayer will soon be back on their screens.

But for , jumping back into ’s world—she played the character on the WB series from 1997 to 2003—and joining the project, which will be helmed by Oscar-winning director and written by Poker Face creators Nora and Lilla Zuckerman, came at exactly the right time.“What I loved about Buffy was she was inclusive,” she tells Glamour. “Sometimes I think we go so far and become anti-man, and it's not about that.

It's about just finding our inner strength and being accepting of the people around us. That was the ultimate message of who she was.

She was different, and she accepted herself, and her friends accepted her, and they made their own family. And that's what life is really about.