Sarah Michelle Gellar

Gellar Talks Possession

Sarah Michelle Gellar, who stars in the upcoming supernatural-tinged psychological drama Possession, told SCI FI Wire that the film deals with a woman whose husband and brother-in-law both end up in comas, when the brother-in-law awakes and claims to be her husband. "It’s sort of like a play and a movie all combined," Gellar said in an interview while promoting her upcoming SF movie, Southland Tales. "It’s about a woman, a young ... career-minded woman, married to a more artistic type, and they live with her brother-in-law because he’s out on parole—that’s how they met; she was his lawyer. And her and the brother-in-law don’t get along very well. And there’s a terrible car accident. And they’re both in a coma."

Gellar’s character finds her life turned upside down. "And she gets a phone call one day that one of them has woken up, but you don’t quite know who," Gellar said. "When she gets there, she finds out it’s her brother-in-law. They can’t stand each other. And her husband is still obviously in a coma. And she has to take him home. ...

"But the odd thing is, he believes that he’s her husband," Gellar added. "And the question is: Is it her husband? Is he faking? Does she want her life back so bad that she’s willing to believe [it] and convince herself about something that’s not there? Or is it possible that somehow his love came back to her?"

In addition to onetime Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Gellar, the movie also stars Lee Pace (TV’s Pushing Daisies) and Michael Landes (TV’s Special Unit 2). As for the title, it was previously Addicted. "Depends on what week you catch the title," Gellar joked. "I’m still not entirely sure what the title is." Possession is slated for release sometime in the spring of 2008.