Sarah Michelle Gellar Spoke with This Buffy Costar After Landing Her Role in Dexter: Original Sin (Exclusive)

If the apocalypse comes, Sarah Michelle Gellar knows who to call.

When the TV and movie star landed her latest role, one of her exes Buffy the Vampire Slayer costars immediately came to mind.

Speaking exclusively to PEOPLE at the premiere Dexter: Original Sin in New York on Thursday, December 11, Gellar, 47, revealed that she visited her co-star Julie Benz, who starred in the original Dexter five seasons until 2010.

“We talked about it a lot,” Gellar, who plays Tanya Martin in the preview, tells PEOPLE. “She was Dexter’s girlfriend. She was Rita and she was the mother of Harrison – Dexter’s child.”

“She’s very excited about it,” Gellar continues, adding that she and Benz, 52, recently discussed the predecessor.

Benz played Darla Buffy in the first, second and fifth seasons of the Joss Whedon series, and also starred in its spin-off, Angeluntil 2004, before it was installed Dexter two years later.

Sarah Michelle Gellar; Julie Benz.

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Earlier this month, Gellar told PEOPLE that she thought she had nailed her role in the crime drama, which premiered on Dec. 13.

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“I actually think if you’ve probably gone back far enough in some of my interviews, I bet you’ve been at some point where someone has asked me, ‘Is there a show or a movie you wish you were a part of?’ I bet I answered — more than once — ‘I’d love to guest star on Dexter,‘” she admitted.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar and Julie Benz in ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’.

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When her co-star Gibson, 29, suggested she “manifest” her choice, Gellar replied, “I think I might.”

“Because I guarantee you I said that, because I was a huge fan,” she said.

Patrick Gibson and Sarah Michelle Gellar in ‘Dexter: Original Sin’.

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“I always said, ‘Oh, it’s a real shame I missed out on being on that show,’ because they had such great characters, and then, you know what? Be careful what you wish for,” she added.

Gellar’s casting for the series was confirmed back in June, and the mother of two wrote on Instagram that it was going to be “a damn good ride.”

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