Working moms, Sarah Michelle Gellar would like to tip her hat to you all. And once you have Buffy’s support, there is no cooler stamp of approval.

SMG is a working mom herself, and when she spilled to Entertainment Weekly for the magazine’s cover story (out now), our E! News cameras were there to capture the magic. Gellar talked about the heartache, reward and stress that goes into juggling career and family, plus great tidbits on her much-anticipated return to TV with the CW thriller Ringer…

“It’s been difficult,” Gellar admitted to EW editor Jess Cagle. “My hat goes off to any working parent. It is the hardest to juggle. I know my job is by no means the hardest in the world, but to any parents, again, it is so difficult because you’re trying to focus so hard but you’re always wondering, What’s my child doing? Are they OK? Did they eat their lunch? Did they eat their vegetables? Did they take their nap? It’s how to separate both of them.”

Speaking of separating things, SMG may be a seasoned television pro, but even the concept of playing twin sisters (one is impersonating the other), makes her head spin. “We joke that I actually play five characters,” she said. “I play Bridget in the past, I play Siobhan in the past, I play Bridget in the present and Siobhan in the present and I play ‘Shiovette,’ who is Bridget pretending to be Siobhan. So it’s very confusing.”

Um, yeah. We’re supposed to be TV experts and even we have a hard time wrapping our mind around that. Thankfully, Gellar is easily confused, too. “I get confused about almost anything,” she laughed. “Every so often I might find myself in a top from one character and in the pants of another character and think, Wait, wrong scene. But once you get into the scene, you realize pretty quickly who you are. And it was actually kind of funny because a lot of the castmembers hadn’t done a scene with present-day Siobhan, and we just did the first one yesterday and people were like, ‘Oh it’s so weird, we haven’t met Siobhan yet.’”

And after months of filming, SMG has really grown to love all five of her characters, and she even gets protective over them. “I don’t look at them as good and bad. I look at them as them being in two different places in their lives,” she said. “Had you met them eight years ago, you would call Bridget the bad twin and Siobhan the good twin. Circumstances have made it what it is, and I think that is what is so interesting about the duality of anybody. Bridget is living her life trying to redeem for all the mistakes that she has made and all the people she has hurt, and Siobhan is motivated by revenge for all the wrongs that were done to her. And they were pretty bad! I can’t tell you, but I can hint.”

But her most important role lately is mother, and after so many years in the business, Gellar has definitely learned her fair share of lessons.

“I think that that is the hardest thing about what we do is the hours. They are very long, but I will say that this experience is incredibly different,” she revealed. “You learn a lot from your first time. Don’t do a show with vampires, at night, with stunts. There is only so much available night, and it’s outside and it’s cold. You want to play rich people, so we are playing rich people indoors. So we get done by 8 o’clock at night, much more civil.”

Dumb question, but how excited are you for SMG back on your TV screen? And don’t forget to check back tomorrow for extended bonus footage you won’t get anywhere else but here!

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Newsflash (if you’ve been living at the bottom of the sea with no internet): Sarah Michelle Gellar is coming back to TV!

The Buffy star is poised to return in the CW’s new suspense drama Ringer, and our E! News cameras caught all the action as she sat down with Entertainment Weekly for the magazine’s cover story, out now.

So what does she have to say about her time on Buffy, her return to All My Children (spoiler alert: Find out who she’s playing!) and how she’s kept her marriage so private? Plus, what’s this about the possibility of hubby Freddie Prinze Jr. coming on Ringer?

First, the quote that shocked us the most:

“I don’t have a burning desire to accomplish anything,” SMG tells EW editor Jess Cagle.

But wait, before you start thinking that TV’s best-ever butt-kicking babe has become something of a slacker, please note that this clearly driven working mom is anything but! She’s referencing the fact that her time on Buffy feels like the pinnacle of a lifetime achievement—something with which you fellow Buffy fans can wholeheartedly agree, right?

“[Buffy] was so fulfilling for me in every way and everything I do now is the cherry on top,” Sarah explains. “I don’t feel the pressure to do this, or have to do this or go here because I feel like I’ve already won.” Love.

Sarah also reveals how she managed not to spiral out of control despite all the fame and fandemonium she experienced at such a young age: “I think it’s tricky. If you don’t have that support system at home to begin with, then it’s so easy to believe all the hype. I guess at the end of the day, I know who I am. If I see myself on a magazine cover at the supermarket, I don’t even realize that it’s me.”

As for ABC’s All My Children, Sarah reveals, “I’m playing a mental patient,” since her original character, Kendall, has been recast. She also finds the cancellation of AMC and other soaps “devastating,” adding, “I don’t see the shows they’re replacing it with lasting 40 years. I don’t see that happening.”

Despite starring in Scooby Doo with real-life husband Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah credits their longtime approach with the media for keeping their private lives out of the public eye.

“I think if you’re able to walk that line from the beginning you’ll find people have to be respectful of it,” Sarah explains. “We’ve never flaunted our relationship.”

So any chance Sarah and Freddie will work together again?

“I don’t think it’s an option now. Because we make it a point that one of us is home with our daughter. I’d love to get him to guest star on [Ringer] for an episode because it would be fun, but we’ll see.”

As not only the show’s two leading ladies (she plays twin sisters), but also a producer, we’re guessing Gellar can probably make that guest spot happen if she wants to. Just a hunch.

Check back tomorrow for part two of this Sarah Michelle Gellar interview. And this Wednesday, we’ll have extended bonus footage not seen anywhere else.

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Sarah is on the cover of this week’s Entertainment Weekly. And I should say GORGEOUS cover! Big thanks to Kelly from DannielGillies.org for the scans!

TVGuide.com has released a new Ringer Sneak Peak!

Ringer premiere will be on September 13, 2011 on CW

More pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar filming Ringer, these ones from August 12, in Malibu Beach. Thanks Mariana from Gemma Arterton Online.

In ‘The Help,’ Southern society girl Hilly Holbrook (Bryce Dallas Howard) is as polished and polite as possible, but that pretty smile hides a mean, racist streak as wide as the Mississippi. It just proves, as Hamlet once said, “One may smile and smile and be a villain.” Here’s our collection of female characters who tried to put a pleasant face on evil as they schemed, bullied and even committed murder to get what they wanted.

14. Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Gellar) in ‘Cruel Intentions’

TV’s ‘Gossip Girl’s have nothing on scheming society girl Kathryn, who thrives on manipulation and seduction, and shows no remorse — even when her schemes end in someone’s death. She maintains the illusion of being a perfect role model, until the film’s end, when the crucifix she habitually wears is revealed to contain a vial of cocaine.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar is doing this year’s TCA Summer Press Tour, some pictures are in the gallery:

It’s official: Sarah Michelle Gellar will return to All My Children for a guest star appearance during the show’s final batch of episodes — but not in her previous role as Kendall.

Gellar told critics at their press tour in Beverly Hills that the cancellation of the iconic show “doesn’t make any sense.” The show will end its run on ABC Sept. 23 and is expected to return in some form on the internet, though not details have been released.

Gellar was on hand to promote her new CW show Ringer. While a Ringer producer told the critics they “have an idea” where the serialized show is going. “We know where we’re going, our goal is to sustain the gasp moments and the big tease in the pilot until the big punch at the end of the season.”

Source: EW.com

As you can see, Glamorous Sarah Michelle Gellar has a brand new layout! Tell me what you think, and let me know if you see any error!