James Marsters is unpacking certainly one of his most uncomfortable scenes, which in the end despatched him to remedy.
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum lately described his “private hell” as he mirrored on a 2002 episode during which his vampire character Spike makes an attempt to drive himself on the titular slayer (performed by Sarah Michelle Gellar).
“Buffy despatched me into remedy, truly. Buffy crushed me,” mentioned Marsters on Michael Rosenbaum‘s Inside of You podcast, including: “It’s a problematic scene for lots of people who just like the present. And it’s the darkest skilled day of my life.”
The scene from the Season 6 episode ‘Seeing Crimson’ is essentially thought-about one of many hardest to look at within the Joss Whedon collection, which ran for seven seasons on The WB from 1997 to 2003. To show his love, Spike makes an attempt to rape Buffy in her rest room, though she’s capable of combat him off.
“The writers have been being requested to give you their worst day, the day that they don’t speak about, their darkish secret, the one which retains them up at evening, after they actually harm anyone or after they actually bought harm or made an enormous mistake of some sort, after which slap metaphoric fangs on high of that darkish secret and inform everyone about it,” he recalled.
James Marsters and Sarah Michelle Gellar in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2000). (twentieth Century Fox Movie Corp.)
“One of many the ladies writers truly had give you this concept, as a result of in school she had gotten damaged up with and he or she went to her ex’s place and thought that in the event that they made love another time, every thing could be mounted,” Marsters continued. “She form of compelled herself and he needed to bodily take away her from the premises, and that was one of the painful recollections of that point of her life.”
Marsters nervous how the scene could be perceived by followers of the present, particularly given the context of flipping the genders within the state of affairs.
“They thought that since Buffy was a superhero that they may flip the sexes, since Buffy may may defend herself very, very simply from this,” he defined. “They thought that they may have a person do it to a girl and it will be the identical factor. I went to them and I mentioned, ‘, guys, we’re offering a vicarious expertise for the viewers. Everybody who’s watching Buffy is Buffy, and so they’re not superheroes, so I’m doing this to each member of the viewers, and so they’re going to have a really completely different response.’”
Contractually, Marsters “couldn’t say no,” including: “We bought the scene within the can, and it was hell. I used to be in [my] private hell.”
“I don’t like sexual predation scenes, something that has to do with it,” he famous. “I don’t audition for these issues. If there’s a film with that form of materials, I don’t go to see the film. If it pops up on tv, I’ve bought to show the tv off earlier than I break it. I’ve a really visceral response to that stuff.”
Though Gellar has watched a lot of the collection along with her household, she defined that ‘Seeing Crimson’ is one episode they skip. “I’ve hassle with [season] six. It wasn’t acceptable for them on the time, and I simply don’t need to rewatch it,” she instructed The Hollywood Reporter final 12 months.
