Buffy The Vampire Slayer

9:00am ET, 23-March-04

Scooby Reunites Buffy Mates

Seth Green, who co-stars in the upcoming Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, told SCI FI Wire that he reunites with his onetime Buffy the Vampire Slayer castmate Sarah Michelle Gellar in the sequel, and that she seemed noticeably happier. "I’ll say this about Sarah," Green said in an interview. "In the last few years, and not so much since the show ended, but just, I think, her getting married and, I think, her gaining a real sense of comfort with who she is as a person, she is much happier."

In Scooby-Doo 2, Green plays Patrick Wisely, a museum curator who catches the eye of Mystery Inc. member Velma (Linda Cardellini). Green shared the screen with Gellar in TV’s Buffy for two seasons, from 1997-1999, playing the musician and werewolf Oz. Now, Green said of Gellar, "you can see her just really seeming to radiate a sense of comfort in her own skin. And that’s great. I’ve known her since we were, like, nine years old, and I have the utmost respect and admiration for her. I think she’s a real talented actress. I think she’s handled herself very gracefully through everything she’s had to experience in the last what, six or seven years? And it was great."

Gellar (Daphne) co-stars in Scooby-Doo 2 with her real-life husband, Freddie Prinze Jr. (Fred)-one of the reasons for Gellar’s frame of mind, Green said. "Freddie’s such a phenomenal influence and such a f—king wonderful guy," he said. "I just love that guy so much. So yeah, that was the big difference that I noticed. But that’s not due to the end of Buffy as much as I think it’s just due to her kind of getting comfortable as a person." Scooby-Doo 2 opens March 26.