The “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” cast makes us cry when talking about their time together

In honor of the 20th anniversary of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Entertainment Weekly gathered the Scooby Gang and other characters for a reunion photoshoot. While you may have already cried over seeing Buffy, Angel, Spike, Willow, and Xander hanging out together, and joined by their creator Joss Whedon, the words of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer cast during their reunion will surely put you over the edge. Get ready for a whole lotta feels.

"When you're going through a really horrible part of your life, like your teenage years, you feel alone," Angel actor David Boreanaz, who just finished up Bones, said. "And Buffy was a way to tell the audience you're not alone."

Willow actress Alyson Hannigan said, “It was the role of a lifetime.” Hannigan also has a soft spot for Buffy because she met her husband, Alexis Denisof, on set — since he played Watcher Wesley Wyndam-Pryce.

"I met the love of my life. And just to get to go to work every day and have Joss sort of train me — I'll never have a better experience than that."

Speaking of Whedon, the creator of the Buffyverse stated how the impact of the show on fans is something that has mattered the most to him over the years.

"The most important thing to me is that I have had people come up to me and say the show made me feel different about what they could be, about what they could do, about how they respond to problems, about being a female leader."

As for Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar totally knows the importance of what she made 20 years ago:

"I'm so incredibly proud of what we all created. Sometimes you need distance to really understand the gravitas of that. I appreciate everything about that job. As an actor, all you ever want to do is leave your mark — you want to do something that affects people."

It feels like a major understatement to say that Gellar simply affected people with Buffy the Vampire Slayer because the fandom’s emotions for her are certainly MUCH stronger than all that.

If this reunion has you craving even more quotes from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer cast, check out this video of the photoshoot from Entertainment Weekly below.

And be sure to pick up a copy of the EW reunion to continue reliving Buffy in all of its glorious glory.