Previous reports suggested the Slayer's name would be Nova and she would have a pair of friends - Hugo and Gracie. Hugo was described as an "out and proud" nerd from a wealthy family, while Gracie was described as an acolyte of Gellar's Buffy. However, Gellar later debunked these reports, calling them "fake."

Hulu's Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot has found its new slayer. "I want to introduce you to [Ryan Kiera Armstrong]," Sarah Michelle Gellar wrote on Instagram underneath a video in which she tells Armstrong that she got the part.

Ryan Kiera Armstrong, who played the heroic and scrappy Fern in Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, has "been cast in a lead role in the pilot opposite returning star Sarah Mich