Sarah Michelle Gellar has likened the lack of Michelle Trachtenberg to the lack of a sister.
On Thursday, Gellar paid tribute to her “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” co-star with a poignant line from their hit TV collection, during which the 2 performed siblings.
Trachtenberg — who was finest recognized for her roles in “Buffy” in addition to “Gossip Girl,” “Harriet the Spy” and “Ice Princess” — was discovered useless in her New York Metropolis condominium on Wednesday. She was 39.
“‘Michelle, listen to me. Listen. I love you,’” Gellar wrote in a put up shared to her Instagram account alongside a slideshow of photographs of the 2 all through the years. “‘I will always love you. The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it. I will be brave. I will live… for you’ 💔💔💔🗝️”
Gellar’s quote is a reference to a pivotal scene within the Season 5 finale of “Buffy.”
Within the scene, Daybreak (Trachtenberg) learns that her blood is the “key” to opening up portals to different dimensions (which is why Gellar included a key emoji in her tribute). When Daybreak’s blood is spilled by the season’s villain, a number of portals from different dimensions open, inflicting terrifying creatures to inhabit Earth. Amid the chaos, Daybreak involves the grim realization that the one solution to cease this apocalyptic risk is to make her blood cease flowing by sacrificing her personal life.
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When she tells her older sister, Buffy (Gellar), of her plans, Buffy realizes that she shares the identical blood as her sister and decides to sacrifice her personal life to spare Daybreak.
Earlier than Buffy leaps to her dying, she imparts a number of strains of knowledge to her teenage sister, which act as a reminder to Daybreak that though life might be troublesome, Buffy desires her to fearlessly embrace each side of it.
“Dawn, listen to me. Listen. I love you,” Buffy tells her youthful sister. “I will always love you.”
She then tells Daybreak that she’s at peace together with her resolution and that Daybreak wants to stay sturdy for his or her family members.
“Dawn, the hardest thing in this world, is to live in it,” Buffy says. “Be brave. Live. For me.”
In Gellar’s slideshow of photographs of her and Trachtenberg was additionally a picture of the 2 sitting with the late Shannen Doherty at a Vainness Truthful occasion in 2005.
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Doherty, who was shut mates with Gellar, died from Stage 4 most cancers final July after dwelling with the illness since 2015. She was 53.
After Doherty’s dying, Gellar posted a set of photographs of her and the “Beverly Hills: 90210” alum hanging out all through the years, very similar to the tribute she shared for Trachtenberg.
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“How do you possibly find the right words to sum up 30 years of friendship?” Gellar wrote of Doherty in her put up. “I keep reminding myself it only hurts this much because, there was so much love.”
