Charisma Carpenter is seeking to get into the enterprise of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer rewatch. No less than, that’s what we gathered from some feedback she revamped the weekend on the Indiana Comedian Con. Whereas addressing a big group of followers, the actress who performed mean-girl-turned-hero Cordelia Chase within the first three seasons of Buffy and the primary 4 seasons of its spin-off, Angel, made a somewhat surprising reveal, which led her to tease the chance of some type of rewatch content material coming down the road. When requested by a fan how usually she rewatched the sequence, Carpenter admitted that she had by no means seen it. That’s proper. Considered one of Buffy’s largest stars doesn’t know the way the present or its offshoot ended.
Making the large admission, Carpenter stated:
“That is a wonderful query. And why it’s related is as a result of I feel it’s actually time that I watched the present. I’ve by no means seen it. I imply, I learn the scripts, clearly, I acted within the first three seasons of Buffy, as a result of it’s important to learn the scripts — you’re in it — and also you desire a fundamental understanding of what’s taking place within the episode. You don’t simply learn your strains and everyone else is ‘blah blah blah’. Like it’s important to learn the script and act in them, however as soon as I went over to Angel, I had no thought what occurred from Season 4 to 7 on Buffy and I by no means had a crossover. So I actually do not know what occurs.”
We’ll give that surprising info a second to sink in. In case you’re doing the maths in your head, which means Carpenter hasn’t seen groundbreaking episodes like “The Gift” or watched her ex-castmates sing and dance in “Once More With Feeling”. She additionally has no concept that the complete city of Sunnydale basically sunk into the Hellmouth on the very finish of the sequence. However, she says she has been placing the items collectively through the years, explaining:
“I do know 28 years later via clips — like I find out about “Hush”, I find out about — I simply discovered that Joyce died. I didn’t know that. I simply discovered that out. I hope I didn’t spoil it for you guys 28 years later, however I didn’t know that. I simply discovered that out most likely two years in the past, and I discovered as a result of I used to be at a Con with [Kristine Sutherland]. We have been on a panel like this and any individual stated one thing to her about it and I checked out her, I used to be like, ‘You died?’ I didn’t know.”
Charisma Carpenter Is Additionally Within the Darkish About ‘Angel’
The actress went on to clarify that the identical will be stated for the fifth and remaining season of Angel. Following her character’s premature and unfair demise, Carpenter says she didn’t observe what David Boreanaz’s Angel, Alexis Denisof’s Wesley, and the remainder of the crew at Angel Investigations have been as much as within the final set of episodes.
“So then with Angel, I wasn’t within the fifth season. I’ve by no means seen the fifth season. And, clearly, I do know what occurred Season 1 via 4 as a result of I learn the scripts, and I used to be performing in it, however I’ve by no means watched the present.”
However, all of that’s about to vary, as Chase took this second to drop a bombshell on the panel’s attendees, telling them, “So, I’m intending to observe the present, and I’m gonna offer you all my ideas.” When the concept of a podcast was introduced up by a fan, she added, “Effectively, truly, [that] is perhaps within the works.”
Ought to Carpenter launch her watch-through (which we hope she does!), she wouldn’t be the primary Buffy alum to take action. Earlier this 12 months, it was introduced that Juliet Landau — who appeared in each productions because the vampire Drusilla — can be digging into the episodes via her audio media challenge, Re-Vamped. To date, she and her co-hosts have chatted with visitors, together with actress Julie Benz and sequence pilot director Charles Martin Smith.
Whereas it isn’t clear who would swing by for a visitor spot on Carpenter’s pod, we all know that she’s still in touch with several alumni from the sequence, which leaves the door of chance large open. Given her particularly fascinating perception into each exhibits, we’d presume that the audio sequence would additionally delve into the toxicity that was going on behind the scenes.
Keep tuned to Collider for extra to come back about Carpenter’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer podcast.
