Jamie's note: Stay tuned for the complete video, HQ official photos & behind the scenes photos, posting soon! I've had to split them into multiple posts because there's so much!
Matthias Clamer for EW
Angel cast and creators reunite for 20th anniversary of beloved vampire drama series
In the City of Angels, the sun is shining brightly on Good Friday. But beyond a heavy black door, away from harsh light, vampires, demons, and a rogue demon hunter or two gather in the darkness of an abandoned warehouse.
Okay, so the Hollywood studio that’s serving as the location for EW’s Angelreunion shoot isn’t actually a warehouse, nor a meeting place for the undead. Rather, the cast of the WB drama is very human, and expressing very human levels of excitement at being together again, 20 years after their show debuted.
“It’s good to see everybody!” says David Boreanaz, 50, the show’s titular vampire who, upon arrival, immediately makes a beeline for the dressing room to find his costars. Spotting Charisma Carpenter (shallow cheerleader-turned-champion Cordelia) and Amy Acker (shy Texan physicist Winifred “Fred” Burkle) in makeup chairs, he plops himself on the counter and sits, legs swinging giddily, catching up with them while they’re curled and coiffed. “Look at that smile,” he says, gesturing to Carpenter with affection. “We just picked up where we were last time we talked to each other.” Speaking of picking up, Acker, 42, enjoyed the series’ experience so much, she has already declared she’d be ready for a revival, which would be season 6. “Every show should be this fun,” she says. “We were so spoiled.”
Jamie's note: Stay tuned for the complete video, HQ official photos & behind the scenes photos, posting soon! I've had to split them into multiple posts because there's so much!
Matthias Clamer for EW
Angel cast and creators reunite for 20th anniversary of beloved vampire drama series
In the City of Angels, the sun is shining brightly on Good Friday. But beyond a heavy black door, away from harsh light, vampires, demons, and a rogue demon hunter or two gather in the darkness of an abandoned warehouse.
Okay, so the Hollywood studio that’s serving as the location for EW’s Angelreunion shoot isn’t actually a warehouse, nor a meeting place for the undead. Rather, the cast of the WB drama is very human, and expressing very human levels of excitement at being together again, 20 years after their show debuted.
“It’s good to see everybody!” says David Boreanaz, 50, the show’s titular vampire who, upon arrival, immediately makes a beeline for the dressing room to find his costars. Spotting Charisma Carpenter (shallow cheerleader-turned-champion Cordelia) and Amy Acker (shy Texan physicist Winifred “Fred” Burkle) in makeup chairs, he plops himself on the counter and sits, legs swinging giddily, catching up with them while they’re curled and coiffed. “Look at that smile,” he says, gesturing to Carpenter with affection. “We just picked up where we were last time we talked to each other.” Speaking of picking up, Acker, 42, enjoyed the series’ experience so much, she has already declared she’d be ready for a revival, which would be season 6. “Every show should be this fun,” she says. “We were so spoiled.”
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'Buffy' at 20: 13 Key Players on How It Changed TV and Why There Shouldn't be a Revival
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Do you stay in touch with the cast and crew?
Sutherland: I see James and Nick a few times a year and occasionally Charisma. I have exchanged messages with Sarah, and I look forward to seeing her and the rest of the cast this week.
Benson: Emma Caulfield and I have been working on a dark horror-comedy called Monster Woman. And I still see the guys from the trio.
Marsters: Everybody. Tony, Nicholas, and I was just emailing pictures of our kids to Sarah the other day.
What are some of your favorite episodes to look back on?
Marsters: Joss doesn't know this, but I never read the scripts for Buffy. I only read my scenes because I was actually a fan of the show and wanted to have that fan experience. People were telling Joss that the dialogue was what made the show great and he said, "That's the only thing really great about the show? Fine I'll do an episode with no dialogue." So we did "Hush." People would say that the show was so great because it's so funny. And then Joss turned around and did "The Body" which was not funny at all and was about the death of Buffy's mother.
Sutherland: I lost my own father when I was 28 and know firsthand the pain and confusion of losing a parent early. I stood in front of my closet just like Willow and didn’t know what to wear to his funeral. I thought that Joss amazingly captured that surreal aspect of what it is like to lose a parent when you are young. "The Body" is of huge importance to so many Buffy fans. As painful as it was to shoot that episode, it is amazing to encounter fans all over the world who emotionally express how profoundly it helped them process a death of their own parent.
Trachtenberg: When Buffy tells Dawn that Joyce is dead it was the first time that I turned around and would see crew men crying. It was the biggest compliment when the big buff dude holding your light is bawling.
Brendon: [Musical episode] "Once More, With Feeling" was my favorite. My girlfriend hasn't seen the show so we'll watch episodes.
Benson: I think making the musical episode was by far and away my favorite experience working on Buffy. That I got to sing a duet with Tony ... that was a singular honor! Although, if I never have to put another corset on, I will die a happy camper.
Head: Joss was directing the presentation and he, Sarah and I were waiting to shoot the library scene and we started talking about musicals. He was a huge musical fan; Sarah said, "Me too!" And he had the idea right then and said, "We must do a musical one year." Year after year went by and I'd keep saying, "Are we going to do the musical?" And he'd say, "No, no. That's not a good idea." And then we did it [in season six]. That was one of my favorites because I was in my element.
Carpenter: My favorite episode was probably "Graduation Day" because I got to stake my first vampire! A couple of years ago I started watching Buffy at the beginning for my son's sake. This was when he was around 10. It was the early episodes. I would never let him watch season four or after. (Laughs.) It's too adult.
What has been the craziest fan interaction you've had over the years?
Marsters: I was having a cocktail party in London and these two women in their mid- to late 70s came up to me and one woman, who was in a wheelchair asked me to turn around and bend over! I should have ran, but I didn't! I bent over and she just grabbed my butt, deep and tight baby! Then I heard this little voice say, "Now, clench." (Laughs.)
Trachtenberg: The reason I haven't partaken in some of the fan conventions is because I did one 15 years ago and a guy handed me his eye lashes in an envelope.
Carpenter: The weirdest thing that's happened was at Comic-Con. Somebody peed themselves. That was awkward.
Caulfield: I am not afraid of bunnies! I mean at this point I kind of hate them because I've been asked so many times. Do I skin men alive when they're bad, too?! No. It's fiction!
Brendon: I actually don't have a lot of crazy fan interactions. It's just a bunch of dudes who say, "Man, you got me laid a lot in high school. You made it cool to be a nerd and awkward and funny." I wonder how many babies are out there because Xander got people laid.
Should there ever be a revival or reboot of any sort?
Benson: A revival only works if Sarah and Joss are involved.
Brendon: If it's a reboot or revival without Joss writing it, it wouldn't be great.
Sutherland: I'll stick with the original myself.
Head: If Joss did something it would be radical. It wouldn't be the Gilmore Girls.
Berman: I would be really happy to get the call from Joss. I have my own thoughts of what it would look like, but my own thoughts are not important. It would be what he thought.
Fury: I can't see Joss wanting to do it. He's not looking for cash grabs. He's proud of his legacy from that show and he has no reason to exploit it any further.
Dushku: Let's leave it alone. This show still plays and works for people. In the finale the power was turned over to every girl in the world, to become slayers. That's the revival we need and we're already seeing today.
Caulfield: It wouldn't even matter for me, I died! (Laughs.) If it was a whole new cast my curiosity would get the best of me and I'd want to see what they came up with.
Carpenter: It would just make the fans so freaking happy. There's a part of me that wants to satisfy that itch, but I don't know if there are stories that could be told. We're not in high school anymore. Most of us are in our 40s. It would have to be something like a Desperate Housewives meets vampires. And to do anything without Joss would ruin everything. I would absolutely do it if Joss was involved and it was an original idea.
Trachtenberg: A great idea would be an animated version of Buffy where it's just our voices. It's hard because everything is a remake these days. They're rebooting Charmed. I was able to tell Joss recently that I'm in the Writers Guild now and I've sold screenplays and pilots, but the thing I struggle with in my writing is that Buffy lived in a world where social media and cellphones weren't a part of the story. You couldn't Google "blah blah blah demon." You had to go physically to the magic shop and find a book. You cannot re-create that today. Even if you tried to date it to back then it wouldn't have the same impact as when it was fresh. If it ain't broke don't fix it. From a writer's perspective that's what I view the show as. It would ruin the legacy to have it be in modern times, and we already did it right back then.
Marsters: If Joss is not part of it then it will be terrible. It would be just as good as the movie. (Laughs.) Joss asked me at the end of Angel, "Do you want to do a Spike movie or something?" And I said, "Joss for you wherever I am in the world I will come and do it. If you want to film Spike I give you seven years because I'm getting older." Vampires don't age, but I didn't count on the fact that I'm now aging pretty well! If we use all of this digital movie magic and made Spike still look young, that would be funny. "Hey, Buffy you're looking a little bit tired."
Greenwalt: You don't reboot something when it was done right.
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