Buffy The Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar has said she’s too old to battle any more bloodsuckers.

The 37-year-old actress – who has just been announced as the voice of a new role in animated show Star Wars Rebels – rose to fame as kick-ass school girl Buffy Summers in Joss Whedon’s hit show, which ran from 1997 to 2003.

Like all cult shows, there is often internet buzz about a possible spin-off movie or reunion, but Sarah told fans not to expect one from Buffy.

The cast of Buffy The Vampire Slayer on set for season six (Jean Cummings/EMPICS )
The cast of Buffy The Vampire Slayer on set for season six (Jean Cummings/Empics)

She said: “I joke that I’d have to have a walker and my walker would be made of wood, and that would be how I would stake people, at this point, I’m a little old.”

The mother-of-two added: “We have them [reunions] all the time, they’re just not televised.”

And as for a movie spin-off, Sarah pointed out Joss Whedon’s character first came to life in a flop 1992 movie starring Kristy Swanson as Buffy.

Sarah said: “People forget, Buffy was a failed movie. Buffy didn’t work as a movie, it worked as a long-arc television show where you could follow this journey.

“We spent all of our first year going, ‘Yes, we know we’re based on a failed movie, but we’re different.’

“And so it just seems counter-productive to go back. It didn’t work the first time.”