It's Buffy the porn star

Sarah Michelle Gellar will play a former porn queen.
Oliver Stallwood|Metro10 April 2012

Buffy The Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar has sunk her teeth into a new role - as a former porn queen.

Gellar, 29, plays Krysta Now, an adult film actress developing her own reality TV show, in the new film Southland Tales. It is set in 2008 in a Los Angeles on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster.

Last night, Gellar described the film, which also stars former WWF wrestler The Rock, as 'a step up' from Buffy and a 'wonderful learning experience'.

She said the idea of a porn star with a talk show once seemed ridiculous but it 'now seems very real'.

Southland Tales is directed by Richard Kelly, who made his name with the cult film Donnie Darko. It is one of 20 films competing at the Cannes Film Festival for the prestigious Palme d'Or trophy.

Other stars on the Croisette yesterday included singer Avril Lavigne, Bruce Willis, Nick Nolte and William Shatner, promoting their new flick Over The Hedge.

Nolte appeared to almost fall asleep during a press conference and at one point played a harmonica. Scottish actress Katie Dickie's debut has caused a stir in the South of France.

Her performance in Red Road, by British director Andrea Arnold, was described by the Hollywood Reporter newspaper as 'captivating'. Red Road was screened in Cannes with subtitles because of the Scottish accents.

Later, director Oliver Stone attended a 20th-anniversary screening of Platoon - his savage depiction of the Vietnam War - and said he was 'depressed' nobody heeded its anti-war message.

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