Charisma Carpenter reveals her disappointment of not starring in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot

Over the years, there have been several rumors about a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, most of them untrue. However, it wasn't until a fellow Buffy stan and an Oscar-winning director, Chloé Zhao, pitched an idea that the titular actor, Sarah Michelle Gellar, just couldn't say no to, that all the years of rumors finally came to fruition.

Now, two decades after the series finale aired, Gellar will be stepping back into the shoes of the character that transformed her acting career. In a conversation with Vanity Fair, she lit a small fire regarding the potential return of other characters, even some of the dead ones, leading to a lot of chaos.

One such character who met an ill-fated end in the franchise was Charisma Carpenter's Cordelia Chase. Carpenter, as well as the Cordelia Chase fans' hopes, rose faster than anything. Everyone wanted to know if she was involved in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot.

Well, there's finally an update, and it's not what anybody was expecting.

Charisma Carpenter's Cordelia might not be a part of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot

Ever since Sarah Michelle Gellar commented that her dream for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot would be to bring everybody back, even the ones who died, fans have been anticipating announcements about the return of their favorite characters, including Charisma Carpenter's Cordelia Chase.

Cordelia Chase had been a part of Buffy the Vampire Slayer from the very start, and her character went through an incredible transformation from the Queen Bee bully to a somewhat friend to Buffy until she left the series to star in the spinoff Angel, where she worked as a supernatural detective. However, she met an ill-fated end and was killed off.

Geller's comments incited hope in Carpenter as well as her fans, who were looking forward to Cordelia's appearance. She expressed her excitement and hope in a conversation with IGN:

"it would be a dream to be included, and it would just be so poetic for that to occur, and for it to occur with this group. These writers are wildly creative, I’m sure they could figure it out if they wanted to."

She went on to add:

"if it was a fan thing, where if there was a thirst or craving or need for Cordelia to be there, I’m sure with one hell of a creative team they have leading the writers room, it would be possible."

The excitement and hope couldn't be more apparent from her side, and it didn't take long for fans to bombard her with questions, hoping for a confirmation regarding her involvement in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot. Recently, she took to her Instagram to clear up the rumor mill and address the questions.

"Hey, I get asked this a lot: ‘Are you doing the reboot?’ And I thought I would address it,"

To her and her fans' disappointment, she revealed that she was not a part of the reboot and had not been a part of any such conversation.

"I am not in the reboot. I am not in the pilot. I don’t even know if the show has been picked up to go to series. I assume it will be."

She even went on to add that her Buffy rewatch podcast title, The Bi*ch is Back, was not an Easter egg signalling her involvement, as fans were assuming.

"It was not intended to sound coded in any kind of way, alluding to the fact that I was admitting to being in the reboot. People were also then commenting, ‘Oh, is this … Are you saying?’ like it was an Easter egg à la Taylor Swift. Not at all."

Breaking all hopes for any involvement in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, she concluded the video, saying:

"I have not had a conversation with any of the powers that be to include Cordelia at this point."

Well, if there were any hopes about Cordelia being a part of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, they're now shattered.

Nevertheless, the reboot is still in the works at the moment, so the updates are endless.

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