10 Actors Who Gave Two WILDLY Different Performances In The Same Year
6. Sarah Michelle Gellar - Simply Irresistible & Cruel Intentions
Sarah Michelle Gellar's characters in two movies released at the start of 1999 may look superficially similar - two beautiful, well-dressed brunette women - but there's a whole world between them.
First up, a week before Valentine's Day, the Buffy actress starred in the magical realist rom-com Simply Irresistible. Gellar played a young woman by the name of Amanda Shelton, who with the help of a magical crab (!) is able to cook dishes which bring out strong emotions in anyone who eats them. Yup.
Exactly a month later, however, Gellar gave a far more memorable performance in an altogether more iconic movie, classic teen romantic drama Cruel Intentions.
Here, Gellar played a far cry from the butter-wouldn't-melt Amanda. Kathryn Merteuil was a drug-taking, highly-sexed, conniving young woman hell-bent on doing anything to get what she wanted.
It was a performance quite unlike any Gellar had given before, and as such proved rather eye-opening for those more familiar with her vampire-hunting heroics on Buffy - let alone anyone who paid a ticket to watch her frothy rom-com jaunt a month prior.