2017 heralds the 20th anniversary of the premiere of ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’, one of television’s most iconic and groundbreaking series, and with it a new slew of interviews and introspectives with the cast and crew on how the cultural monolith continues to affect their lives.
“It was the hardest day of my professional life. I was curled up in a foetal position in between takes. I can’t watch scenes like that. I choose not to. I won’t go to a movie that has something like that. It’s a specific hot button for me. It just really makes me crazy. It was really hard. It was just unbelievably hard.”
Despite the impact filming such a confronting scene had on him, Marsters admits that he doesn’t regret a moment of working on ‘BtVS’, especially the more downbeat moments of S6:
“I’m glad we did it. Spike was evil, and I think a lot of people forgot about that. Joss [Whedon, the showrunner] was constantly trying to remind the audience, ‘Look, guys, I know he’s charming, but he’s evil.’ He’s a bad boyfriend. It would be bad to date a guy like this. And I think he wanted to reinforce that in the most dramatic way imaginable…
“And I was truly terrified. In hindsight, I recognize that that’s exactly where you want to be. Artistically, if you feel safe and comfortable, you’re boring and you might as well just stop it. You really want to be out of your comfort zone, and I was certainly out of my comfort zone during that time. I don’t take any of what happened in six back.”
Elsewhere in the lengthy chat, Marsters gushes over co-star Anthony Stewart Head who played the fatherly character of Giles (“He was the best actor on the show by a mile”) and incorrectly states the introduction of Buffy’s sister Dawn was a good idea, when it definitely was not, as she sucks a million.
Picture: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
